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"The School Boy" is a 1789 poem by William Blake and published as a part of his poetry collection entitled Songs of Experience. These poems were later added with Blake's Songs of Innocence to create the entire collection entitled "Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul".
Being children's poems, many make fun of school life. He wrote his first children's poem, "Scrawny Tawny Skinner", in 1994. In 1997, he decided to write his first poetry book, My Foot Fell Asleep, which was published in 1998. Nesbitt's poem "The Tale of the Sun and the Moon", was used in the 2010 movie Life as We Know It.
Sheet music was published by G. Schirmer in 1920 as part of Six Cheerful Songs to Poems of American Humor. William Schuman composed an opera, The Mighty Casey (1953), based on the poem. The song "No Joy in Mudville" from Death Cab for Cutie's album We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes directly references the poem.
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In 1911, American composer Margaret Hoberg Turrell published an arrangement of Little Orphant Annie for choir. [16]In The Orphant Annie Story Book (1921), author Johnny Gruelle augments the character's background story and goes to great lengths to soften her image, portraying her as telling pleasant tales of fairies, gnomes and anthropomorphic animals rather than her characteristic horror stories.
In his 1963 Critical Biography of Davies, Richard J. Stonesifer traces the origins of the poem back to the sonnet "The World Is Too Much With Us" by William Wordsworth, saying: "But he went to school with Wordsworth's sonnet "The world is too much with us", and echoes from that sonnet resound throughout his work as from few other poems.
Every school was a big top circus tent and the pecking order went from acrobats to lion tamers from clowns to carnies; all of these were miles ahead of who we were we were freaks lobster claw boys and bearded ladies; oddities juggling depression and loneliness playing solitaire spin the bottle trying to kiss the wounded parts of ourselves and heal; but at night while the others slept we kept ...
The poem is prominently referenced in Interstellar (2014), where the poem is used repeatedly by Michael Caine's character John Brand, as well as by several other supporting characters. [21] Additionally, the poem features in the plot of the films Back to School (1986) and Dangerous Minds (1995).