poetry theme
The art of stringing words together is featured.
26 total · 1 choice · 3 major · 22 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| shortstory: The Celestial Omnibus (1911) | choice | Septimus was into poetry. The boy was forced to learn poetry. The story seems to be a rebuke aimed at literary snobbery. |
| ldr2019e4x10 | major | A poet in the St Luke's Asylum was forced by Satan to write the one poem that would destroy the world. The poet was patterned after Christopher Smart, who wrote the poem "For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry", while confined in St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics. |
| play: Love's Labour's Lost (1598) | major | it seems every other character was writing love poetry, and often competing against each explicitly in the art of turning a phrase |
| tz1959e3x37 | major | Prof. Fowler read classic poems to his students. |
| ahh2x14 | minor | Keith read aloud the opening line from Christina Rosetti's narrative poem A Ballad Of Boding: "There are sleeping dreams and waking dreams; What seems is not always as it seems". He later read the line "Beyond the sea of death love lies For ever" from the Rosetti's poem One Day. |
| ahp2x11 | minor | Harry recited part of a Francois Villon poem to Lois before telling Lois that he was going to kill him. |
| ahp4x12 | minor | Mrs. Fenimore recited poetry by Sir Walter Scott. |
| ahp5x21 | minor | Len praised the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. |
| ahp6x24 | minor | Arnold and Miss Greco read from Shakespeare's Sonnet 141 on the patio. |
| ahp7x37 | minor | The viewer is treated to a beatnik poetry reading. |