Walker Percy's The Loss of Creature
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When I read the essay, I was reminded of one of the opening scenes from the movie "Dead Poets Society" in which the students from a prep school are introduced to their new English teacher, Mr. Keating. According to an essay published online on the Peter Weir Cave website, a student is asked by Mr. Keating to read aloud from an introduction to poetry book in which the author describes the manner in which poetry can be appreciated using a graph which plots "perfection" on one axis and "importance of the poem" on another axis with the total area of the poem measuring its "greatness." Mr. Keating pronounces the author's analysis of poetry and his methodology for evaluating a poem's greatness as "excrement." Mr. Keating's goal is to teach the boys to think for
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