#deadpoetssociety

[puckspoetry]

“Today’s my birthday”

“Is today your birthday? Happy birthday”

I guess today I’m Todd Anderson 😊

[sandysartjunk]

quick and messy sketch of Neil Perry (dps) (trying to figure out how to do digital art on my phone until i get a tablet!) r.i.p neil perry, you would've loved jeff buckley

[hannibalslibrary]

[anderperrylover]

THOUGHTS ON THE WOMEN OF DPS

Hear me out DPS is largely centered around its male ensemble - but we get so much information about what women went through during the time....

We see two women primarily - A mother and a literal Girl and here's the thing...they both wear Pink. Like almost the same shade of pink in two crucial scenes, in which their presence is undermined by the actions of a man and boy respectfully. Mr Perry is screaming at his son and Mrs Perry is in the background unable to exactly take a stand.

Chris is in the theatre, seated beside the boy who constantly persisted her and assaulted her while she was under the influence of alcohol. (Also Knox knew what he was doing - he took the drink murmured Carpe Diem...in that one scene). She's silently watching the show and Knox looks at her as if he's finally done something. And then he taken her hand...And she doesn't react against it...

Also, the one thing about Chris is that she genuinely doesn't want to stir up trouble for Knox - and is almost pressured by him to have a relationship with him - he plays his cards - and the outcome? He finds her at their school. At Welton.

And interesting point - she laughs about the idea of Chet being at the play - Like theatre isn't a thing for a guy like him - And whatever she does needs to check his requirements? Either way she can't go to the theatre for her own need or liking - she needs to fulfill his requirements...

The thing is pink is the traditional colour palette for women. I mean we also see Mrs. Danbury but like she doesn't wear pink and the one other time I think I can point to is the girl that Knox mistakes Chris for? The choice was made to put these two women in the same colour palette and it carries weight. The women are in relationships with a man and boy(s) who are prominent in their circles - they have power, which they don't have. They are in the softest colour palettes. Despite their age difference they are put into similar circumstances.

Mrs. Perry cannot protect Neil - Chris is unable to defend her own case

They both have to go with what happens, without a say.

Mrs. Perry loses her son

Chris becomes an object of love that should be WON (Knox says something along the lines of - SHE'LL BE MINE)

Mrs. Perry is put into an emotionally toxic state and resorts to smoking (coping)

Chris is humiliated and made a fool out of

The circumstances vary according to their age - BUT they are very similar - At the end of the day the men play the cards and have the power and the women are stripped off of their power and agency made into archetypes (wives- lovers)...

I think it's a pretty interesting way to construct characters who are reflections of the society at the time. Now if Ginny was included this would've slightly altered things... 1) Ginny wears dark blue 2) But she does wear pink at the show 3) In the book if I am not mistaken Charlie kinda begins to like her?

[stormykatie]

someday i will teach

myself to write

a poem again

and it won't be about you

or the years

we wasted dreaming

about our future

while forgetting

to water the flowers

so one day they just wilted

away erasing

our existence

no, when that time comes

i'll be writing about something else

perhaps, not one about the war,

or the inflation,

or the rising heat index

i will try my best to write about

anything that does not capture

the stars in your universe,

the bubbles of thoughts floating

above your head,

the wind kissing

your hair, the rain gently gliding

in your porcelain skin

i will forget about the way

you made me feel

along with the memory

of how truth

became the first

casualty of a war

we didn't ask for,

a war that ruined

the taste

of heaven on my lips,

a war that created

waves of differing heights

and tenacity

i'll forget about the dreams

we buried beneath our fallen city,

the unread text messages,

the unpublished reels, drowned

in the echo of grenade raining

the afternoon sky, cries

of dissenters swarming the streets

like flies, shrieking out "freedom!"

oh, freedom,

when will i...

forget about everything

and write about cicadas,ignore

the ashes and screams filling

the air as i watch your head explode,

a watermelon being run over

by a truck!

i will teach myself

to write a poem that

doesn't immortalize you

however, everything

that you were stains

my hands with red-

a dark, raging

shade of red

-flowers wilting,

katie, 05/12/24

Photo lifted from:

[reno-muse]

This Neil Perry i drew ages ago

[thestevenmeeks]

I just finished rewatching Dead Poets Society, and had the urge to listen to Hadestown (amazing show highly recommend), the second half of the show specifically, as if my sorrow wasn't enough. When I tell you, the first song I played was Road to Hell reprise, and almost started bawling, because it perfectly showcases the average DPS fan rewatching experience:

It's an old song And that is how it ends That’s how it goes

Don't ask why, brother, don't ask how He could have come so close The song was written long ago And that is how it goes

It's a sad song It's a sad tale It's a tragedy It's a sad song But we sing it anyway

'Cause here’s the thing To know how it ends And still begin to sing it again As if it might turn out this time I learned that from a friend of mine

[hyperraduo22]

yo weird thought i just had-

if y’all look at the people that the dead poets tend to be friendly with that’s outside of the dead poets society, the two people that stand out are stick and spencer

they’re the only two characters we see interacting with the dead poets the most- like i know y’all remember when knox threw a paper ball at spencer, when stick was the first person waiting as charlie was walking out of nolan’s office after his punishment for the “call from god” stuff he pulled, and stick is even in the background acknowledging the conversation and smiling when knox broke the news to the dead poets that he read his poem to chris

to add onto this, stick and spencer are the only two other people that sit at the same lunch table as the dead poets meaning that they were there when the dead poets found keatings yearbook picture and questioned what the dps was. they were the only people that we know of that heard about the dps but never actually joined it- if they really cared to, they could’ve been the ones that pieced the puzzle together from the article that charlie published in the school paper that those seven friends were the dps and they secretly knew it the entire time but probably didn’t question or care for it until it was brought up

edit: y’all see the two people walking in the background right behind the dead poets cause i know you do-

[sandyemmar]

part 4 of even more funny things me and a gay person made

[crimesofapoet]

We have two lives, and the second begins when we realise we only have one.

[puckspoetry]

oh what I would give to watch Dead Poets Society for the first time again…

[weltonpoets]

saw this graffiti the other day, pretty fitting considering dps is always on my mind

[hannibalslibrary]

[anderperrylover]

DEAD POETS SOCIETY TRIBUTE- TO 35 YEARS

Couldn't post this but here it is after all these days :)

To DEAD POETS SOCIETY - THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN FOR MAKING OUR LIVES EXTRAORDINARY

To 35 years of TO INDEED BE A GOD :)

Carpe Diem guys.

[spiderspectres]

i love that scene in dead poets society where neil wakes up todd in the middle of the night telling him he faked his death and they kiss and run away to nyc with the rest of the group and on a timeskip neil wins an emmy for best actor while todd is releasing book after book and also being an english teacher

the pic is from todd's new book release he was sooo nervous but neil was there looking at him with pure love as he always does

[sevyn-stars]

hc that Cameron has a fear of touching eyes and Charlie goes out of his way to touch his eye at Cameron whenever he gets annoying