Youth is good, poetry is good

Elenora 2022-04-20 09:02:50

I watched "History Boys", it's a great movie. In the UK in the 1980s, eight outstanding high school students worked hard to get into Oxford University. All the protagonists are boys, and there are hazy amours, joys and sorrows of growth, friendship and teacher-student love. Gorgeous blockbuster quotations of poems made me overwhelmed, and made me want to pick up Shakespeare's poems that I couldn't read after reading a few of them and continue to read them. It turns out that I like poetry and mastering poetry is such a beautiful thing, whether it is Chinese or Western. A joyous story, but in the end it is a little melancholy ending, but it is very meaningful, how to grasp your own future. Sigh a little about youth, youth, youth, how beautiful and fleeting

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The History Boys quotes

  • [talking about Tom Irwin]

    Headmaster: He comes highly-recommended.

    Mrs. Lintott: So did Anne of Cleves.

    Headmaster: Who? He's up-to-the-minute, more "now".

    Mrs. Lintott: [dryly] Now? I thought history was "then".

  • [Dakin is groping Fiona, using World War I as a metaphor for his "assault" on her body. He moves his hand up her thighs but she pushes it away]

    Dakin: What's the matter?

    Fiona: No-man's land.

    Dakin: Ah, fuck. What do I do with this?

    [he points to his erection]

    Fiona: Carry out a controlled explosion?