Dawson's Creek, Season 6

Dawson's Creek (1998-2003) was an American television series about four friends in a small coastal town that help each other cope with adolescence and beyond. more »

Jack:
Mr. Hampton... is there a problem?

Hampton:
Do I have to keep reading?

Jack:
Well, the poem's not finished.

Hampton:
No, offense, Mr. McPhee, but this is a poem by a guy about another guy. It's, like, a gay poem.

Jack:
I wasn't aware that poems had sexual orientation. See, this gay poem and others like it actually got Whitman fired from his job. See, he was an outcast most of his life. But he didn't care. He loved his country. He loved the freedom that it stood for, and he celebrated the American spirit every chance that he got. And here we are 150 years later, and we're still laughing at him. Your assignment for this weekend is to find a way to say, through the conventions of poetry, what you are afraid to say. I want you guys to write about something that you're scared of. We're gonna read these things out loud on Monday to each other, so I would hope that you give the same courtesy to each other that you did not give to Mr. Whitman today. Have a good weekend.

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