Poetry
Ok I haven't seen this in a while and i know the majority of the poetry spoken of during the film was by donne. does anybody know what the poems were called?
Ok I haven't seen this in a while and i know the majority of the poetry spoken of during the film was by donne. does anybody know what the poems were called?
I know about one of them, which is breathtaking. Vivian delivers the lines at the very end of the movie...
Death be not proud
DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee, 5
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell, 10
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then;
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.
how could you watch this movie and permit the semicolon in the last line?
sharehaha...that is funny *beep*
sharetrue, after watching the movie. but every single representation of the text I could find in the internet had a semicolon
i.e.
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/658.html
i think it´s goethe´s
sharenooo, it's Donne.
And it's one of the greatest poems in english literature.
It is the 10th of John Donne's Holy Sonnets and yes it is among some of the best in English Literature-- especially when one realizes it was written in 1633. HRS.
shareI love Donne.. and this movie was amazing.. the poetry was just perfect.
shareActually I believe it is Holy Sonnet Six.
shareIt's Holy Sonnet VI in the 1633 Edition of Donne's Poëms; in the 1635 edition, it is Holy Sonnet X.
Yes, and the last line should read:
"And death shall be no more, death thou shalt die."
or
"And death shall be no more, death, thou shalt die."
Nope...it is the 10th.
"You have to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight." Bruce Cockburn
Yeah was John Donne, The Holy Sonnets, the last verse read was from Holy Sonnet X. Goto www.poemhunter.com and you can download an adobe file of all Donne's poems.
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Pity, as they're supposed to be such thorough and rigorous scholars, that both Emma Thompson and Eileen Atkins mis-scan the first line of the sonnet every time they quote it. It should read "Death be not proud, though some have callèd thee..." and not "...though some have call'd thee..." Ten syllables, as in every other line of the poem, and not nine.
Richard Hills
My godness, doesn't it make you just love poetry ;).
I love those philosophical movies that introduce you to those parts of life or human achievement you would never suspect yourself to be interested in or able to grasp.
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Actually... she uses a couple of donne poems... mostly from the holy sonnets
Sonnet 6 -
This is my play's last scene ; here heavens appoint
My pilgrimage's last mile ; and my race
Idly, yet quickly run, hath this last pace ;
My span's last inch, my minute's latest point ;
And gluttonous Death will instantly unjoint
My body and soul, and I shall sleep a space ;
But my ever-waking part shall see that face,
Whose fear already shakes my every joint.
Then, as my soul to heaven her first seat takes flight,
And earth-born body in the earth shall dwell,
So fall my sins, that all may have their right,
To where they're bred and would press me to hell.
Impute me righteous, thus purged of evil,
For thus I leave the world, the flesh, the devil.
Depends on what book of poetry/anthology you are reading (some have Batter my Heart as the tenth Holy Sonnet). All of his poetry was published in 1633 by his son so the order of the poetry was sort of put out of line.
I'm doing my thesis on Donne (I hope to teach his poetry some day) and I must say Donne is probably one of the greatest, if not the greatest, poet and I loved that Wit incorporated his poetry.
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