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It was named Bright Star after this poem, which is recited multiple times in the film. In the Covert Affairs episode "Speed of Life" (Season 3, Episode 4) the character Simon Fischer admits to Annie Walker that the tattoo on his upper left shoulder blade of Ursa Minor was inspired by John Keats's poem. Although she asks him, Simon doesn't tell ...
Specimen of an Induction to a Poem (1816) Calidore (1816) Hadst thou Liv’d in Days of Old (1816) I Stood Tiptoe Upon a Little Hill (1816) I am as Brisk (1816) On Oxford (1817) O Grant that Like to Peter I (1817) Think not of it, Sweet One (1817) Unfelt, Unheard, Unseen (1817) In Drear-Nighted December (1817) Modern Love (1818) The Castle ...
Frances (known as Fanny) Brawne was born 9 August 1800 to Samuel and Frances at the Brawnes' farm near the hamlet of West End, close to Hampstead, England. [1] [2] She was the eldest of three surviving children; her brother Samuel was born July 1804, and her sister Margaret was born April 1809 (John and Jane, two other siblings, died in infancy). [3]
Bright Star was in the main competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, and was first shown to the public on 15 May 2009. The film's title is a reference to a sonnet by Keats titled " Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art ", which he wrote while he was with Brawne.
The 1915 American film The Poet of the Peaks was based upon the poem. [23] Germaine Dulac's 1920 La Belle Dame sans Merci explores the archetype of the femme fatale. [24] [25] Natassia Malthe stars as "The Lady" in Hidetoshi Oneda 2005 fantasy short of the same title. Ben Whishaw recites the poem in the 2009 Keats biopic Bright Star.
Nature is a common theme in Romantic poetry, but in Keats' poem it demonstrates how essential and natural writing is to his being. [5] The shore and water that love and fame sink within represent an expanse of fears that sit before Keats, giving the natural world a darker theme in those lines.
Read the full text of the speech as he delivered it that day: I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Freya Stark alludes to the poem in the title of "A Peak in Darien" (London, 1976). Vladimir Nabokov refers to the poem in his novel Pale Fire when the fictional poet John Shade mentions a newspaper headline that attributes a recent Boston Red Sox victory to "Chapman's Homer" (i.e. to a home run by a player named Chapman).