Like Neil’s effort at Tennyson, and Meeks’s recitation of performance poet Vachel Lindsay’s ‘The Congo:’
The cave is also the location for other characters to try out poetry recitation. It is one of the poems that Charlie (aka Nuwanda) recites and passes off as his own to the girls he invites to a meeting of the reformed DPS in a cave. Lord Byron’s ‘She Walks in Beauty Like the Night’ also makes an appearance in the film, as it does in ‘Dead Poets Society’ starring Robin Williams and Ethan Hawke. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, In the film ‘A Matter of Life and Death’ (1946) the central character, played by David Niven, is an RAF pilot who is also a poet, given to quoting Andrew Marvell and Walter Raleigh and the film ends with Sir Walter Scott on love:
Poems not only punctuate many successful films, such as WH Auden’s ‘Funeral Blues’ in ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ and Thomas Hardy’s ‘Drummer Hodge’ in ‘The History Boys,’ they sometimes even provide the title itself, as Alexander Pope’s ‘Eloisa to Abelard’ does for the 2004 film ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’. ‘ O Captain! My Captain!’ and ‘ O Me! O Life!’ by Walt Whitman ‘ Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day’ by William ShakespeareĪ Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare “The Ballad of William Bloat’ by Raymond Calvert
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