<Tab/>A romantic is someone who envisions the idealistic, has an imaginative thought process and most importantly is an individual. The opposite of a romantic, a realist is someone who looks only at the facts and what is in front of them, a person who is against those that break away from the norm. As a romantic, it is one's fate to experience a catharsis that shakes the core of one's values. The event must affect what the romantic values most and with this occurrence a romantic will evolve into a realist. In Poet's Society, Mr. Keating an English teacher transforms from…