I'm such a lightweight. Seeing Rodney Dangerfield recite Do Not Go Gentle would probably disturb my sleep for a very long time. You're a brave man, Chris.
Blake's tyger weaves very nicely throughout a meaty little film called "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys". Good one to see, with Jodie Foster as pretty frightening peg-legged nun.
So there are poems on movies, movies on poems, and then there are poems that are cinematic, and cinema that's poetic. Speaking of the latter, some months ago saw a marvelous little film called "you me and everyone we know"
and was so taken by some of the music I made myself sit through all the closing credits. Discovered some of the lyrics had come from a Richard Wilbur poem/hymn. And how cool is that...
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