Poem
What is the poem that is spoken right at the end of the movie? It's something about moving on and finding love again after a loss.
shareIs it Hedauville by Roland? He wrote it for Vera in 1915 from the trenches, not too long before he died.
The sunshine on the long white road
That ribboned down the hill,
The velvet clematis that clung
Around your windowsill,
Are waiting for you still.
Again the shadowed pool shall break
In dimples round your feet,
And when the thrush sings in your wood,
Unknowing you may meet
Another stranger, sweet.
And if he is not quite so old
As the boy you used to know,
And less proud, too, and worthier,
You may not let him go -
(And daises are truer than passion-flowers)
It will be better so.
I suspect it might be this one because this poem starts of the chapter that begins in 1923, which is when she really starts her life again.
However, I don't think she ever really moved on. She wrote the book in 1933, and it's very clear then (despite being married and having children), that she's in love with Roland still. And, obviously, she never gets over the loss of her brother.
I know that his poem Violets appears in the film as well.
This poem may have been quoted. The Violets poem was definitely quoted. I remember that one. But for some reason I don't THINK this is the one that I heard. I may have to go see the movie agian. Thank you, though.
Brideshead is A Thousand Moments and MacBeth
Sorry! I would have liked this poem to appear at that point, since this the poem that Vera Brittain chose to mark that segment of the book.
I haven't seen the movie yet - it's not playing anywhere near me. I'm actually going to stop by the art house theater in town to see if they're going to get it.
It is a good guess. But the words are not ringing familiar to me. I appreciate your input.
Brideshead is A Thousand Moments and MacBeth
Hmm. I feel that it must be a poem written by either Vera or Roland (and likely Vera, as she lived through the war and eventually moved forward).
She wrote a poem about that in 1933 - it's called The War Generation: Vale, but I don't think it would be that one either because it's not upbeat at all.
The last lines are:
For us they live till life itself shall end,
Their frailties and the follies of those years,
Their strength which only pride of loss could lend,
Their vanished hopes, their sorrows and their tears;
But slowly towards the verge the dim sky clears;
For nobler men may redeem our clay
When we and war together, one wise day,
Have passed away.
You are right, that's the poem you hear Roland reciting when Vera walks to the lake at the end of the movie. But only the first two verses and with the last sentence of verse three at the end.
I think it's because Roland wrote it about himself and Vera, that's what I gather from the third verse. And I guess they wanted the poem to sound like Roland saying it's okay for her to move on, so they left out the last verse. But that's just my interpretation.
The sunshine on the long white road
That ribboned down the hill,
The velvet clematis that clung
Around your windowsill,
Are waiting for you still.
Again the shadowed pool shall break
In dimples round your feet,
And when the lark sings in your wood,
Unknowing you may meet
Another stranger, sweet.
It will be better so.
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