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The poem is recited in the 1998 film, Velvet Goldmine. [citation needed] The 2003 movie, Identity, repeats the last verse of the poem at various parts in the movie, replacing its last presented line by the actual last line of the first verse. [citation needed] The 2009 horror film, The Haunting in Connecticut, quotes part of the poem. [citation ...
A little man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today Oh, how I wish he’d go away "Antigonish" (1899) [4] Mearns also wrote many parodies of this poem, entitled Later Antigonishes, such as "Alibi": As I was falling down the stair I met a bump that wasn't there; It might have put me on the shelf Except I wasn't there myself. [7]
The poem is told from the point of view of an old man who, at some point in his past, had a fantastical experience in which a silver trout he had caught and laid on the floor turned into a "glimmering girl" who called him by his name, then vanished; he became infatuated with her, and remains devoted to finding her again. [1]
Ways to Disappear (Little, Brown & Company, 2016) ISBN 9780316298506 Those Who Knew (Viking Books, 2018) ISBN 9780525560432 [ 25 ] Take What You Need (Viking Books, 2023) ISBN 9780593652855 [ 26 ] [ 27 ]
The Little Girl Lost is a 1794 poem published by William Blake in his collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience. According to scholar, Grevel Lindop, this poem represents Blake's pattern of the transition between "the spontaneous, imaginative Innocence of childhood" to the "complex and mature (but also more dangerous) adult state of ...
"The Road Not Taken" is a narrative poem by Robert Frost, first published in the August 1915 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, [1] and later published as the first poem in the 1916 poetry collection, Mountain Interval. Its central theme is the divergence of paths, both literally and figuratively, although its interpretation is noted for being ...
"Do not go gentle into that good night" is a poem in the form of a villanelle by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), and is one of his best-known works. [1] Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, [2] Thomas wrote the poem in 1947 while visiting Florence with his family.
In U.S. popular culture it is perhaps best known for Hall of Fame baseball broadcaster Vin Scully, who would quote it when showing a player not in the game. [1] The sonnet was first published in Milton's 1673 Poems in his autograph notebook, known as the "Trinity Manuscript" from its location in the Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge.