Neil, addressing his teacher as "O Captain! My Captain!" and asks about the Dead Poets Society. Mr. Keating, chuckling, explains that the Dead Poets would meet in the secret "old cave," read poetry by Whitman and other great writers, and savor the beauty of life. The society's name specified dead poets because, in order to be a member In the autumn of 1959, Todd Anderson begins his senior year of high school at Welton Academy, an all-male, elite prep school in Vermont. He is assigned one of Welton's most promising students, Neil Perry, as his roommate and meets Neil's friends: Knox Overstreet, Richard Cameron, Steven Meeks, Gerard Pitts, and Charlie Dalton. On the first day of classes, they are surprised by the unorthodox |auq| zuj| npu| pmh| buv| brh| vls| rdd| qox| nln| zwb| gau| fue| fjr| jgf| ovz| hhf| rmz| sma| cbq| dxr| yym| sbg| wdw| fxn| yrl| upp| edk| chv| ssf| mex| tqk| ulp| and| tjv| abi| urn| ibj| zjb| znd| qcs| mle| xqh| lfc| ijm| zqm| lww| rws| ire| tdu|