does anyone know of any movies with short little poems in them?

Question

like where one of the characters reads a poem or something? i dont want it to be much longer than this one tho.

"smiling is infectious, you can catch it like the flu. when someone smiled at me today, i started smiling too. i passed around the corner & someone saw me grin. when he smiled i realized i'd passed it onto him. i thought about the smile, then realized what it's worth. a single smile, just like mine, could travel around the earth. so, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected. let's start an epidemic quick, & get the world infected."

yeah something like that.

Answer 1

In Four Weddings and a Funeral, whats-his-name reads W. H. Auden's In Memorium at the funeral. It starts with "Stop the clocks", you can find it on Google, and it's not long.

Answer 2

In the John Wayne movie El Dorado, James Caan recites the Edgar Allan Poe poem El Dorado. It's a short poem, even for Poe, but it's a good one.

In the Rumpole of the Bailey TV series (PBS) Rumpole often recites lines from Wordsworth and others.

Answer 3

A 1960s movie, with James Mason. The Flying Dutchman. This quotes from a couple of poems.

The series "The Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy" also quotes one particular poem and proclaims its author to be the worst in the know universe.

Luck

Answer 4

In the movie Logan's Run, Peter Ustinov (the old man) recites some of T. S. Eliot's poems on cats (Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats) including the one on The Naming of Cats. These were the basis for the Broadway production of CATS.

In the TV series of Beauty & the Beast, Vincent recited several poems. There's a sonnet by Shakespeare that's especially memorable.

Answer 5

10 Things I Hate About You
>Kat reads her sonnet.

Answer 6

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