love-life-dead-or-alive:

So we all know the scene in The History Boys that is about not understanding poetry because “most of the stuff poetry is about hasn’t happened to us yet”.

And Scripps secretly agrees, even though he does not say so. Because how could he admit that all those poems about love are still lost on him?

But some day, after the left Sheffield, he’s watching Posner watch Dakin. Posner, who is apparently still hung up on this boy, even after he got into Cambrigde. Scripps just bumps his shoulder against Posners and offers him half of his sandwich, because he knows its the kind Posner likes and he wants to cheer him up. And Posner smiles that half sad smile of his and bumps him back, distracted from watching Dakin for the moment and instead strikes up a conversation about one of the courses they share.
And Scripps listens to him go on about his professor and watches his face get carefree again…and he thinks of a poems he read some time ago by Charles Wiles “If love were like water, I’d build you a fountain. And if love were like stone, I’d bring you a mountain”. And in this moment he understands the poem. Because he would do anything to make Posner happy….And suddenly it strikes him why. And it’s such a sudden epiphany, he hastily excuses himself and runs of, almost forgetting his jacket. Posners confused shouting at him to wait, in the background, but he does not.

And back at his dorm room he just slides down on the floor as soon as the door is closed and suddenly his mind is filled with all those sonnets and poems Hector made them read and learn by heart. And he gets them. He understands the sorrow, the lnging, the hurt…but also the happiness, the joy. And wonders how he never noticed his own feelings before, because thinking back, it was blaringly obvious. 

i love everything about this, oh my god