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The Unchanging Sea (1910), a short film by D.W. Griffith, was inspired by the "Three Fishers" poem. The first stanza is used in the film itself. And Women Shall Weep - 1960; The poem is recited by J. Edward Bromberg in the 1946 film Queen of the Amazons. Quoted by actress Ester Howard in the 1941 film "Sullivan's Travels."
The inspiration for the poem came from a walk Wordsworth took with his sister Dorothy around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the Lake District. [8] [4] He would draw on this to compose "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" in 1804, inspired by Dorothy's journal entry describing the walk near a lake at Grasmere in England: [8]
Longfellow's first draft of "Excelsior", now in the archives at Harvard University, notes that he finished the poem at three o'clock in the morning on September 28, 1841. [1] The poem came to him as he was trying to sleep. "That voice kept ringing in my ears", as he wrote to his friend Samuel Gray Ward, which caused him to get up and write the ...
"Tears in rain" is a 42-word monologue, consisting of the last words of character Roy Batty (portrayed by Rutger Hauer) in the 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner. Written by David Peoples and altered by Hauer, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] the monologue is frequently quoted. [ 4 ]
Ame ni mo makezu (雨ニモマケズ, 'Be not Defeated by the Rain') [1] is a poem written by Kenji Miyazawa, [2] a poet from the northern prefecture of Iwate in Japan who lived from 1896 to 1933. It was written in a notebook with a pencil in 1931 while he was fighting illness in Hanamaki , and was discovered posthumously, unknown even to his ...
Behold, the history and fun facts behind everyone's favorite festive poem, along with all of the words to read aloud to your family this Christmas. Related: 50 Best 'Nightmare Before Christmas' Quotes
An Ode to the Rain Composed Before Daylight, on the Morning Appointed for the Departure of a Very Worthy, but Not Very Pleasant Visitor, Whom It Was Feared the Rain Might Detain "I know it is dark; and though I have lain," 1802 1802, October 7 A Day-dream. ('My eyes make pictures,' &c.) "My eyes make pictures, when they are shut:" 1802 1828
Hughes worked for 10 years on a prose poem, "Gaudete", which he hoped to have made into a film. It tells the story of the vicar of an English village who is carried off by elemental spirits, and replaced in the village by his enantiodromic double, a changeling, fashioned from a log, who nevertheless has the same memories as the original vicar.