Poetry in movies...?

Question

I'm putting together an anthology of poems for my creative writing class. The theme I've chosen is poems from movies; for instance, from the movie 10 Things I Hate About You I picked the poem Kate wrote for English class.

♥I need some suggestions on some poems I could use that were in movies ♥
(this does not mean song lyrics!!!)
I need at LEAST ten.
Thanks for your help!

Here comes the creative part--- I have to write a poem along side each one that reflects the original and/or create a piece of artwork that goes along with it-- I also have to write original poems of my own that go along with the anthology theme.
Not all are other poet's poems.




(to be quite honest, I hate poetry. I ♥ short stories, that's why I took the class)

Answer 1

OK, here's a bunch. Listing by the poet, the poem, and the movie.

Khayyam, Omar
The Rubaiyat, 7 ["The Bird of Time has but a little way . . ."] in Unfaithful, 2002

Yeats, W. B.
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" in Million Dollar Baby, 2004
"He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" in 84 Charing Cross Road, 1987
"An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" in Memphis Belle, 1990

Williamson, Marianne
"A Return to Love" in Coach Carter, 2005

Auden, W. H.
"Funeral Blues" in Four Weddings and a Funeral, 1994

Parker, Dorothy
"Resume" in Girl, Interrupted, 1999

Herrick, Robert
"Gather Ye Rose-Buds While Ye May" in A Prairie Home Companion, 2006

Poe, Edgar Allan
"Ulalume" in The Ladykillers, 2004

Neruda, Pablo"The Dead Woman" in Truly Madly Deeply, 1991

Kipling, Rudyard
"Gunga Din" in Sylvia, 2003

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
"A Child's Grave at Florence" in Tea with Mussolini, 1999

Hughes, Langston
"Montage of a Dream Deferred" in A Raisin in the Sun, 1961

Jonson, Ben
"To Celia" ["Drink to me only with thine eyes"] in Ghosts on the Loose,1943

Brecht, Bertolt
"Germany Pale Mother" in Germany Pale Mother, 1980

Keats, John
from Endymion ["A thing of beauty is a joy forever"] in White Men Can't Jump, 1992
"To Autumn" in both The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1969, and Bridget Jones's Diary, 2001

Dickinson, Emily
"'Hope' is the thing with feathers" in Autumn in New York, 2000
"We never know how high we are" in Seabiscuit, 2003

Pope, Alexander
"Eloisa to Abelard" in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004

Kenyon, Jane
"Let Evening Come" in In Her Shoes, 2005

Bradstreet, Anne
"To My Dear and Loving Husband" in Le Divorce, 2003

Eliot, T. S.
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in Love and Death, 1975, and in Apocalypse Now, 1979, and in Till Human Voices Wake Us, 2002, and in The Fog of War, 2003.

This is not a criticism, but an honest question: Just out of curiosity, why would a creative writing teacher require the class to compile anthologies, which are necessarily derivative and not original or creative?

Answer 2

I love the Cher Referance

Steel magnolias has a speach that has always hit me as sort of poetic
When Julia is telling her mom about how she wants to have a baby and also then end at the funeral Slaly fiels monologue

Or you can go for the obvious Bax lurmans use of shakespeare

but Moulin Roughe might be good as well

Answer 3

I would check out Shakespeare in Love (with Leonardo DiCaprio).I haven't seen it, but my friend loves it and I belive there is some in there.Also, for a more childlike poem, the Disney Movie Tom and Huck has one I believe.