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The Inner Room" is a poem by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in his 1898 poetry collection Songs of Action. [1] Unlike most of Doyle's poetry, the poem is "a deeply personal, highly introspective effort," [ 2 ] which has been interpreted as "describing the various battles within [Doyle's] mind."
For example, the poem provoked a negative response from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, featured in her poem “The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to Write a Poem called The Lady’s Dressing Room.” In this poem, she voices what many thought was the reason for his writing the poem: sexual frustration.
The poem was put to song by country music stars Tex Ritter for his 1959 Blood on the Saddle album and Hank Snow on his Tales of the Yukon album (1968). The poem was the inspiration for The Face on the Barroom Floor painting by Herndon Davis in the Teller House Bar in Central City, Colorado, and that painting inspired a chamber opera by Henry ...
The Face on the Bar-Room Floor, a film directed by John Ford, adapted from the poem; The Face on the Bar Room Floor, a film directed by Bertram Bracken; The Face on the Barroom Floor, a 1936 painting on the floor of the Teller House Bar in Central City, Colorado, U.S., inspired by the poem
The expression "the elephant in the room" (or "the elephant in the living room") [2] [3] is a metaphorical idiom in English for an important or enormous topic, question, or controversial issue that is obvious or that everyone knows about but no one mentions or wants to discuss because it makes at least some of them uncomfortable and is ...
The Face on the Bar Room Floor is a short film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin in 1914. [1] Chaplin stars in this film, loosely based on the poem of the same name by Hugh Antoine d'Arcy . Plot
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories is a collection of horror stories, poems and urban legends retold for children by Alvin Schwartz and illustrator Dirk Zimmer. It was published as part of the I Can Read! series in 1984. In 2017 the book was re-released with illustrations by Spanish freelance illustrator Victor Rivas. [1]
The Enormous Room (The Green-Eyed Stores) is a 1922 autobiographical novel by the poet and novelist E. E. Cummings about his temporary imprisonment in France during World War I. Background [ edit ]