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Countess Kathleen, Scene 5 by William Butler Yeats
The years like great black oxen tread the world and God the herdsman goads them on behind and I am broken by their passing feet.
I'm on vacation for the next 9 days, but keep the entries coming!
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Gina MarySol Ruiz said, on 9/28/2007 4:52:00 PM
This is hilariously wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing. I'm a little envious of nine days of vacation. :) Enjoy!
Sara said, on 9/28/2007 6:03:00 PM
Nancy, you really upped the ante for Poetry Friday. Next week, I'm going to see if my dog can handle Leaves of Grass (I don't know, though, because she's always eating it and barfing it up.)
This was so funny, and I love your contest. Culture is not dead!
This week, I'm starting a new contest, one that I think everyone will find easy, fun and interesting. Yes, yes, we're putting the last contest down to my poor combination of medication. Sigh....
This contest theme: High Culture meets Pop Culture
So I was driving home from work the other night, and for some reason suddenly found myself thinking of Rodney Dangerfield reciting "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" in the movie Back to School.
Which led me to remember Charles Bronson in the movie Telefon, and that scene in the phone booth where the classic lines from Robert Frost are quoted:
The woods are lovely, dark and deep but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
What a lovely way to be brainwashed.
And then I thought of one of my favorite scenes from Porky's II (a movie that made me giggle so much I almost wet myself), where Pee Wee plays Shakespeare's Robin in the school play and gives the closing speech from "A Midsummer Night's Dream." This scene coming right on the heels of the outrageous sex and vomit sting scene was a fabulous juxtaposition. What's remarkable to me is that it was because of Porky's II that I fell in love with this little bit of Shakespeare. How many of you can say that? How many would admit to it?
Now the hungry lion roars, And the wolf behowls the moon, Whilst the heavy plowman snores, All with weary task fordone. Now the wasted brands do glow, Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite In the church-way paths to glide. And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream, Now are frolic. Not a mouse Shall disturb this hallowed house. I am sent with broom before, To sweep the dust behind the door.
And so back to the contest....
Here is your mission, if you want to play:
Submit your comments here with examples of TV shows, popular songs, or movies that used references or quotes from famous poets or authors in a way that may have caught people by surprise. Caught by surprise? I mean, don't include the movie Sense and Sensibility, where half of it was quotes from poetry because two of the characters sat around and read each other poetry throughout. Don't include Shakespeare in Love or Hamlet, where of course there will be a lot of, um, Shakespeare.
Give me movies like Porky's II, or songs like Dire Straits "Romeo and Juliet." Better yet, give me quotes from The Simpsons. Any extra explanation you can include, similar to mine above about Porky's II, will gain you extra points.
You also get extra points for posting about this contest on your blog.
Deadline: October 12 Prizes: Good. I'll randomly draw 4 winners and I'll send them gift cards worth real money ($10 to 25).
Enjoyment factor: 10
Oh, and I'll create a post of all the submissions. Please include links to videos, or pictures, if you can, because that will make the post more fun.
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cloudscome said, on 9/14/2007 12:20:00 PM
Of course I thought of the Simpsons first. What a great contest!
Sara said, on 9/14/2007 1:40:00 PM
Well, there was the Wordsworth rap that Fuse8 found, but she should get the credit for that hilarious bit, not me. Link: http://fusenumber8.blogspot.com/2007/05/video-sunday-poetry-misc.html
Kelly Fineman said, on 9/14/2007 3:07:00 PM
There was the use of Walt Whitman and Shakespeare in Dead Poets' Society, but I'm thinking that may fall into the Sense & Sensibility category.
Sting quotes from Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 in "Nothing Like the Sun". He takes the line "my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" and switches up the conclusion.
Nancy said, on 9/14/2007 3:12:00 PM
Sara, you brought it here first, so thanks! That was worth watching.
Kelly, the Sting one is perfect. Love it!
Kelly Fineman said, on 9/14/2007 3:12:00 PM
Oh, and I posted about it chez moi: http://kellyrfineman.livejournal.com/233621.html
Nancy said, on 9/14/2007 3:13:00 PM
Thanks for the post Kelly!
Nancy said, on 9/14/2007 3:13:00 PM
Cloudscome, I don't watch the Simpsons, so feel free to be the first to use that for specific examples.
Michele said, on 9/15/2007 3:24:00 AM
"Doctor Who": Season 1 - we had a meeting with Charles Dickens (doing his "A Christmas Carol" one-man show) in "The Unquiet Dead"; Season 3 - we had a meeting with Shakespeare (lots of quotations in "The Shakespeare Code", plus references to Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle", Harry Potter and the "Back to the Future" fims - talk about giving me a Nerdgasm !), poetry quotations from T S Eliot in "The Lazarus Experiment", and part of Laurence Binyon's "For The Fallen" at the end of "The Family of Blood". In addition there were the episodes with historical themes (The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, Tooth and Claw, The Girl in the Fireplace, The Idiot's Lantern, Evolution of the Daleks/Daleks in Manhattan, and Human Nature/Family of Blood).
And that doesn't include the many, many meetings with literary and/or historical characters that were scattered throughout the Classic Who series.
Plus which, David Tennant's going to be playing in "Hamlet" and "Love's Labour's Lost" next summer/autumn - that's bound to get at least a few non-Shakespeare fans into the theatre !
My favorite unexpected poetry moment came during a commercial break for Super Bowl XXXIV, when Monster.com quoted from Robert Frost's "A Road Not Taken". http://about.monster.com/roadnottaken/
You'd better believe I pointed that out to students the following day!
aBookworm said, on 9/15/2007 8:01:00 AM
Ah, my brain wheels are churning! One touching moment I recall is Naomi Watts in Le Divorce reading a poem about love in marriage even as her husband leaves her for another woman. Woody Allen's movies also have poetry galore. One made deft use of Emily Dickinson, I forget which. In Willy Wonka there were some mentions of Shakespeare and Out of Africa also had some poetry. And I seem to remember Homer Simpson once rapping about a tomato(?)
aBookworm said, on 9/15/2007 8:13:00 AM
I've posted it on my blog as well : http://abookwormsdiary.blogspot.com/2007/09/poetry-and-contest.html
Sherry said, on 9/15/2007 9:07:00 PM
Gilligan's Island did a musical version of Hamlet, and I have never forgoten the lyrics: "Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Do not forget; stay out of debt. Think twice, and take this good advice from me, Guard that old solvency. There’s just one other thing you ought to do, To thine own self be true."
Sara said, on 9/22/2007 6:29:00 AM
okay, this is so totally cheating, but if you check out any great masterpiece, like "Macbeth," at Wikipedia, you get a slew of cultural references with the main entry. Everything from video games to HBO series.
Douglas Twitchell said, on 9/26/2007 10:58:00 AM
Bugs Bunny does some of that kind of stuff. There was one cartoon where he's sitting in his rabbit hole, playing a banjo (a BANJO! of all things!) and singing Poe's "The Raven"
Then, though this doesn't exactly fit what you're looking for...there's all those times when he calls Elmer Fudd a "Nimrod", which is very tongue in cheek, since Nimrod was an obscure Bible character who was referred to as a "mighty hunter"
Oh...and in some episode of Babylon 5, the Narn ambassador quotes parts of Yeats' "The Second Coming"
I chose this poet during my searches today because her first name is my middle name, and somehow that makes her a better poet in my view. Anyhow, the poem today is full of interesting images and a stop-and-think-about-it concept. Enjoy!
Two, Three by Rae Armantrout
Sad, fat boy in pirate hat. Long, old, dented, copper-colored Ford.
How many traits must a thing have in order to be singular?
(Echo persuades us everything we say has been said at least once ......................................before.)
I've posted a Dugan poem in the past (Love Song: I and Thou) but this one is new to me.
On Looking for Models by Alan Dugan
The trees in time have something else to do besides their treeing. What is it. I'm a starving to death man myself, and thirsty, thirsty by their fountains but I cannot drink their mud and sunlight to be whole.
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Sara said, on 8/24/2007 9:40:00 AM
"The trees have something else to do beside their treeing" Ah yes, I've never thought of it that way, but I will the next time I'm in the woods. Do you think this is why we imbue trees in stories with human-like inner spirits?
TadMack said, on 8/24/2007 4:23:00 PM
Whilst they are 'treeing' they must also whisper. This was a really interesting one! Thanks!
John Mutford said, on 8/25/2007 11:01:00 AM
I enjoy the frustration in the poem.
Nancy said, on 8/26/2007 6:09:00 PM
Yes, I thought this was intriguing too. Thanks for your comments!
I ran across this tonight, and thought all the librarians out there might like it.
My First Memory (of Librarians) by Nikki Giovanni
This is my first memory: A big room with heavy wooden tables that sat on a creaky ...............wood floor A line of green shades—bankers’ lights—down the center Heavy oak chairs that were too low or maybe I was simply ..............too short ............................For me to sit in and read So my first book was always big
And GO HERE for an interview with Nikki Giovanni talking about poetry and books and life. I liked this in particular: "There's no life in safety.... It prevents you from greeting the world with open arms." I also really enjoyed how she ended with a bit about making poetry accessible. Worth a listen!
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eisha said, on 8/17/2007 7:28:00 AM
Oh I just love this. Thanks, Nancy!
jules said, on 8/17/2007 7:40:00 AM
Awesome.
In one of my grad school classes on children's lit, my prof handed out a typed-up list of quotes about the library by authors and such -- some positive, some dreadful (her point being to start a discussion with us about the importance of a welcoming atmosphere in our libraries). I should go find that.
Thanks for the great poem.
Elaine Magliaro said, on 8/17/2007 7:47:00 AM
Nancy,
Great selection...excellent post! Enjoy the weekend.
TadMack said, on 8/17/2007 1:49:00 PM
Ooh, we were just talking about her last night! Thanks for this -
Sara said, on 8/18/2007 4:11:00 AM
Nikki was at the L.A. SCBWI conference, and I actually got to talk to her.
I love this as a first memory. Mine is of something mundane: cracks in the sidewalk.
There's been so much talk about weird weather lately, I went hunting for a poem about wind and rain. Here is what I found.
In General by Pattiann Rogers
This is about no rain in particular, just any rain, rain sounding on the roof, any roof, slate or wood, tin or clay or thatch, any rain among any trees, rain in soft, soundless accumulation, gathering rather than falling on the fir of juniper and cedar, on a lace-community of cobwebs, rain clicking off the rigid leaves of oaks or magnolias, any kind of rain, cold and smelling of ice or rising again as steam off hot pavements or stilling dust on country roads in August. This is about rain as rain possessing only the attributes of any rain in general.
And this is about night, any night coming in its same immeasurably gradual way, fulfilling expectations in its old manner, creating heavens for lovers and thieves, taking into itself the scarlet of the scarlet sumac, the blue of the blue vervain....
And for something completely different, why not check out Sara Lewis Holmes' 39 Reasons to Write, which was an answer to the meme I posted for my birthday.
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cloudscome said, on 8/11/2007 3:49:00 AM
Simply beautiful how the poet says rain, any rain and then pours out images of particular rains... When she gets to the part about fingers touching I get shivers.
Sara said, on 8/11/2007 11:06:00 AM
Nancy, this is gorgeous, so gorgeous. I'm going to bookmark it so I can copy it out by hand. I have a notebook where I collect my favorite poems so I don't lose them, and I want this one in it.
And thanks for the link to my 39 Reasons (and the original inspiration.) I just started writing and couldn't stop. :)
SevenImpossible said, on 8/14/2007 11:44:00 AM
Contest extended?! Maybe I'll get it together and enter. It's just such a great idea, but I'm so disorganized these days.
Extraordinary efforts are being made To hide things from us, my friend. Some stay up into the wee hours To search their souls. Others undress each other in darkened rooms.
The creaky old elevator Took us down to the icy cellar first To show us a mop and a bucket Before it deigned to ascend again With a sigh of exasperation.
For more fun, go here for the audio of another of his poems.
And finally, fresh off the www.poets.org presses: The Academy of American Poets will feature Mr. Simic in a free public reading in New York City's Bryant Park on August 21. He will also participate in the Academy's inaugural Poets Forum in October. For more information, please visit www.poets.org/poets.forum.
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Happy Poetry Friday! You'll find the round-up over at Check it Out!
I've snuck back from vacation for just a day, and wanted to get you this link to a wonderful poem by Philip Levine (brief bio).
I could only find this in audio, but I've transcribed the first half to the best of my ability.
Messieur Degas Teaches Art and Science at Durfy Intermediate School, Detroit 1942 by Philip Levine
He made a line on the blackboard One bold stroke from right to left diagonally downward And stood back to ask -- Looking as always at no one in particular -- "What have I done?"
From the back of the room Freddy shouted, "You've broken a piece of chalk!" Messieur Degas did not smile. "What have I done?" he repeated.
The most intellectual students Looked down to study their desks, Except for Gertrude Bimler, Who raised her hand before she spoke: "Messieur Degas, you have created The hypotenuse of an isosceles triangle."
Degas mused. Everyone knew that Gertrude could not be incorrect.
Happy Poetry Friday! The round-up can be found at this link.
I'm off for a sailing trip today, and leave you with this little bit about the sea.
A Grave by Marianne Moore
Man looking into the sea, taking the view from those who have as much right to it as you have to yourself, it is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing, but you cannot stand in the middle of this; the sea has nothing to give but a well excavated grave. The firs stand in a procession, each with an emerald turkey-foot at the top, reserved as their contours, saying nothing; repression, however, is not the most obvious characteristic of the sea; the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.
No reliable audio this time (you might try this link but it didn't work for me), but here's a bio of the poet. She worked at the New York Public Library, just like other people we admire who may or may not have blogs and who appreciate good poetry.
While you're there reading the bio, click on the link to read another good poem called "Baseball and Writing." Moore was a big baseball fan, and it shows in this second poem!
Update: here's an audio clip of Moore reading "Silence." Quite interesting.
Back next week!
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Happy Poetry Friday! When you're done here, don't forget the Poetry Friday round-up over at Chicken Spaghetti.
I have to say I really enjoy hunting around on Poets.org for new poetry. Today, I followed their link for "Cowboy Poetry" and from there a link to the poet Maxine Kumin.
Consider this poem about her guilt over letting go of a good horse:
Jack by Maxine Kumin
How pleasant the yellow butter melting on white kernels, the meniscus of red wine that coats the insides of our goblets
where we sit with sturdy friends as old as we are after shucking the garden's last Silver Queen and setting husks and stalks aside for the horses
the last two of our lives, still noble to look upon: our first foal, now a bossy mare of 28 which calibrates to 84 in people years
and my chestnut gelding, not exactly a youngster at 22. Every year, the end of summer lazy and golden, invites grief and regret...
And then consider going here to read and listen to Kumin's "Woodchucks," which takes a somewhat humorous, somewhat grisly look at the determination of the poet to get rid of varmints in her garden. The poem begins: "Gassing the woodchucks didn't turn out right." If you read it as I did, you will laugh and then you will wince.
If the phrase "Cowboy Poetry" intrigues you, use this link for a description of Cowboy Poetry. By the way, based on this description I don't think either of the two Kumin poems I point out are part of the Cowboy Poetry genre.
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Mary Lee said, on 7/13/2007 4:12:00 PM
I love Maxine Kumin's poetry and other writing. I've heard her read the woodchuck poem, but somehow had never heard or read Jack. Heartbreaking. Reminds me of The Death of the Hired Man by Robert Frost and makes me think of lost opportunities...things I let slip and shouldn't have...
Nancy said, on 7/13/2007 7:50:00 PM
Thanks for the comment Mary Lee. I'd never read either poem before. I love finding new (to me) poets!
I know this is late..and weekly winners have been posted... but this is my first for Monday artday... and I figured I would submit it anyway.... This little gal is "all" curl.... and check out my personal blog for the 'other' version..
wonderful job and i think just the rough, squiggly pastels and charcoal are RIGHT on, look-wise. this is a great piece, janice. the crop is best. it really adds to the playfulness and personality. :))
Catnapping said, on 6/11/2007 4:50:00 PM
this is just perfect. i love her face, especially her eyes!
great use of light. brava, brava!
ValGalArt said, on 6/11/2007 8:51:00 PM
just beautiful!
Paulette said, on 6/12/2007 9:59:00 AM
This is beautiful! Love her unruly hair and her eyes!
Valerie said, on 6/12/2007 1:47:00 PM
She is gorgeous! great drawing
Emila Yusof said, on 6/14/2007 2:14:00 AM
Janice, I just love your style! Thanks for sharing this-it's beautiful!
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This is hilariously wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing. I'm a little envious of nine days of vacation. :) Enjoy!
Nancy, you really upped the ante for Poetry Friday. Next week, I'm going to see if my dog can handle Leaves of Grass (I don't know, though, because she's always eating it and barfing it up.)
This was so funny, and I love your contest. Culture is not dead!