All: Poetry Goes Hollywood

Here's a fun site that a just found. It's a partial list (I'm sure there are many more) of poems that have appeared in movies. I don't believe there is category at the Oscars for this: There should be.

One of my all-time favorite poets is Jane Kenyon. You could have knocked me over with a feather when I read that her poem "Let Evening Come" appears in the 2005 film In Her Shoes starring Cameron Diaz. I doubt that you could have made me watch that movie before tonight.  Now I might have to.  (Not in class, though.  Don't get any ideas.)

(If you ever wondered what it was like to be clinically depressed, try "Having it Out With Melancholy.")

But I'm depressed enough.  Let's try something that's very seasonally appropriate.

February: Thinking of Flowers

       by Jane Kenyon

Now wind torments the field,
turning the white surface back
on itself, back and back on itself,
like an animal licking a wound.

Nothing but white--the air, the light;