[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:03.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gentleman open your texts\Nto page 21 of the introduction Dialogue: 0,0:00:04.24,0:00:07.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mr. Perry, would you read the opening \Nparagraph of the preface\N Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.59,0:00:10.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,entitled understanding poetry Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.42,0:00:15.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Understanding Poetry by \NDr. J. Evans Pritchard, PhD Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.37,0:00:19.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before we understand poetry\Nwe must first be fluent with Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.53,0:00:22.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its meter, rhyme and figures of speech, \Nthen ask two questions, Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.09,0:00:26.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One, how artfully has the objective \Nof the poem been rendered Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.14,0:00:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and two, how important is that objective. Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.52,0:00:34.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Question one rates the poem's perfection\Nquestion two rates its importance. Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.56,0:00:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And once these questions have been answered,\Ndetermining the poem's greatness Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.40,0:00:40.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,becomes a relatively simple matter. Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.84,0:00:44.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If the poem's score for perfection\Nis plotted on the horizontal of the graph Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.86,0:00:47.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and its importance \Nis plotted on the vertical, Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.91,0:00:54.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then calculating the total area of the \Npoem yields the measure of its greatness Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.99,0:01:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A sonnet by Byron might score high on the \Nvertical, but only average on the horizontal Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.48,0:01:08.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A Shakesperian sonnet, on the other hand, Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.29,0:01:11.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would score high both \Nhorizontally and vertically Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.77,0:01:17.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yielding a massive total area, thereby\Nrevealing the poem to be truly great. Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.05,0:01:21.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As you can see through the \Npoetry in this book, Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.71,0:01:26.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,practice this rating method. As your ability\Nto evaluate poems in this manner grows, Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.14,0:01:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so will your enjoyment \Nand understanding of poetry. Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.66,0:01:38.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Excrement.\N(dramatic pause) Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.92,0:01:42.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what I think of \NMr. J. Evans Prichard. Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.38,0:01:45.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not laying pipe, \Nwe're talking about poetry. Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.14,0:01:49.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can you describe poetry \Nlike American Band Stand? Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.30,0:01:53.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I like Byron, I give him a 42, \Nbut I can't dance to it. (laughter) Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.79,0:01:56.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I want you to rip out that page. Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.92,0:02:06.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go on, rip out the entire page.\NYou heard me, rip it out. Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.50,0:02:08.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,RIP IT OUT! Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.09,0:02:13.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go on, rip it out!\NThank you Mr. Dalton. Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.38,0:02:15.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gentleman, I'll tell you what Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.71,0:02:18.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't just rip out that page, \Ntear out the entire introduction. Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.74,0:02:21.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want it gone, history\Nleave nothing of it. Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.16,0:02:23.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rip it Out, RIP! \N(sounds of paper ripping) Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.58,0:02:28.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be gone J. Evans Pritchard, PhD. \NRip, shred, tear, rip it out! Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.20,0:02:31.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to hear nothing but ripping \Nof Mr. Pritchard. Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.32,0:02:34.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We'll perforate it, put it on a roll.\N Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.83,0:02:36.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not the bible, \Nyou're not going to go to hell for this. Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.100,0:02:39.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(sound of paper ripping and laughter) Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.62,0:02:42.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Make a clean tear, \NI want nothing left of this. Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.59,0:02:45.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(whispering) We shouldn't be doing this Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.87,0:02:47.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rip! Rip! Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.08,0:02:49.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Rip it Out! Rip!\N Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.15,0:03:01.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(sound of ripping paper) Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.21,0:03:05.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What the hell is going on here!\N(paper ripping stops) Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.02,0:03:08.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't hear enough rips! Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.72,0:03:11.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Mr. Keating\N- Mr. McAllister Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.84,0:03:13.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(dramatic pause) Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.66,0:03:17.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm sorry I, I didn't know you were here. Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.70,0:03:24.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- I am.\N- Well, so you are. Excuse me. Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.50,0:03:28.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keep ripping gentleman! Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.22,0:03:32.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a battle, a war, \Nand the casualties could...