What are some good poems that are in a movie?

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.

Here comes the creative part in case you were wondering--- 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.

♥I need some suggestions on some poems I could use that were in movies ♥
(this does not mean song lyrics!!!)
I NEED AT LEAST 10

Answer 1

Ok...very intersting subject you picked

I'm giving you two of my favourites:

1) Dead Poets Society

SHE walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that 's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!


2) Tristan + Isolde

I cannot sleep

For every dream only reminds me

Of every night without my love

I cannot eat

For fear of tainting the taste

Of his sweet, sweet kiss

That still lingers

Upon my lying lips

Oh, but the truth of his mouth

How he can speak life into my soul

With the merest utterance

It is both heaven and hell

For while this love is woven by angels

It is damned by the vow to another

That is forever etched in my heart

My husband by unhappy chance

Though he holds my hand in sleep

And in the hours of the day

He will never hold my heart in life

Or own my body in the nighttime

For both have been given without reserve

To my lover, my friend

It is his face I see in dreams

His body that I feel beside mine

His secrets are my secrets

His heartbeat is my heartbeat

I am my lover's and he is mine

And that oath holds more than marriage's bonds

For how can a heart that is made whole by one

Be bettered by that which joins it upon wedding?

It is no easier for an eagle

To give up his wings

Than for two lovers

To abandon one another

My husband is my companion

A cherished friend

But my lover is the stars in the heavens

He is the deep of the sea

The cold of the winter

The heat of the sun

He is the silk of the roses

And the pierce of the thorn

He is dark and light, mysterious and certain

Everything within the earth

The beauty of heaven

And passion as hell's flames

He is all of everything

And everything loves him

For who or what could not agree

That there is none like he

My warrior, my savior

My angel, my friend

Hope you find this helpful!!!

Answer 2

In the movie "The Outsiders" there is a Robert Frost poem Nothing Gold Can Stay. Something like that. See the movie or get the book.

Answer 3

The poem used by Violet Szabo, a British secret agent tortured and killed by the nazis, portrayed in the film "Carve her name with pride"

The life that I have is all that I have
And the life that I have is yours
The love that I have of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.

A sleep I shall have, a rest I shall have
And death will be but a pause
For the years I shall have in the long green grass
Are yours and yours and yours.

Answer 4

There was a poem in the movie "Sea of Love" with Al Pacino. They used it for a personal ad to try to lure the "killer"....

I live alone within my heart like a hut within the woods
I keep my heart high upon a shelf, barren of other goods
I need someone to reach for it and place it where it belongs
I need anothers touch and smile to fill my heart with songs

Answer 5

Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost, in the Outsiders:
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower,
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day,
Nothing gold can stay.

Answer 6

A great one, from Dead Poet's Society:

I close my eyes, and this image floats beside me.
A sweaty-toothed madman with a stare that pounds my brain.
His hands reach out and choke me.
And all the time he's mumbling.
Mumbling truth
Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold.
You push it, stretch it, it'll never be enough.
You kick at it, beat it, it will never cover any of us.
From the moment we enter crying
to the moment we leave dying,
it will cover just your head
as you wail
and cry
and scream.

Answer 7

My favorite poem from a movie is in Artificial Intelligence.

"Come away, oh human child,
To the waters and the wild,
With a fairy hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping,
Than you can understand."

Answer 8

Blade Runner:
"I have seen things you people you wouldn't believe,
starships on fire over the shoulder of Orion,
C-beams glittering in Tennhauser gate,
all those moments lost in time
like teardrops in the rain,
'time to die"

Answer 9

"its the jungle's creed the strongest feed on whatever prey it can and i was branded beast at every feast before i ever became a man"- from the movie deep cover great movie

my favorite poem