"Calmo. Jason may know if the overdose was intentional or accidental, and who administered it, but he does not say. Dr Gilchrist, Craddock and Miss Marple let that be. The title of the novel comes from the poem ""The Lady of Shalott"" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The Lady of Shallot lives in a tower near Camelot, and sees it only reflected in a glass. She will be doomed if she looks directly; when Lancelot appears, she looks directly at him and the looking glass cracks. This poem is referred to by name several times in the novel, with these lines"
"The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 12 November 1962 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in September 1963 under the shorter title of The Mirror Crack'd and with a copyright date of 1962. The UK edition retailed at fifteen shillings (15/-) and the US edition at $3.75. It is set in the fictional English village of St. Mary Mead and features Miss Marple. It was dedicated by Christie:"
"near Camelot, cursed not to leave the tower or look out of its windows. She weaves a tapestry, viewing the outside world only through reflections in a mirror behind her. The painting depicts the pivotal scene in the third part of the poem: the Lady spies ""bold Sir Launcelot"" in her mirror: the sight of the handsome knight and the sound of him singing draws her away from her loom to the window, golden yarn still clinging around her knees, bringing down the curse upon her as ""the mirror crack'd from side to side"". She leaves the tower to take"
"Mirror"" on January 29, 1845. Its publication made Poe popular in his lifetime, although it did not bring him much financial success. The poem was soon reprinted, parodied, and illustrated. Critical opinion is divided as to the poem's literary status, but it nevertheless remains one of the most famous poems ever written. ""The Raven"" follows an unnamed narrator on a dreary night in December who sits reading ""forgotten lore"" by a dying fire as a way to forget the death of his beloved Lenore. A ""tapping at [his] chamber door"" reveals nothing, but excites his soul to ""burning"". The tapping"
"hours creep, Dream thou – and from thy sleep Mutability (poem) ""Mutability"" is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley which appeared in the 1816 collection ""Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude: And Other Poems"". Half of the poem is quoted in his wife Mary Shelley's novel ""Frankenstein"" although his authorship is not acknowledged in either the 1818 or 1831 editions. She is credited as the author of the lines. There is also a prose version of the same themes of the poem in ""Frankenstein"". The Creature or Frankenstein's monster also quotes a line from the poem in the novel. The"
"Shattered Mirror Shattered Mirror is a vampire novel written by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, published in 2001 when the author was 17. W. B. Yeats’ poem ""The Two Trees"", which references broken glass, appears in the beginning of the book, and is the inspiration for the title. The main theme of the book is that the perceived heroes can sometimes be evil in their actions and the villains can sometime have good sides. It is a comment that things are not just one thing or the other, but mixed with qualities of all aspects of life. The novel was an ALA Quick"
"puts out on the tide. The novel's epigraph, ""che mena il vento, e che batte la pioggia, e che s'incontran con si aspre lingue"" (""whom the wind drives, or whom the rain beats, or those who clash with such bitter tongues"") comes from Canto XI of Dante's ""Inferno"". The book was inspired by the most difficult years of Fitzgerald's own life, years that that she had spent living on an old Thames sailing barge named ""Grace"" on Battersea Reach. She later regretted that some translations of the novel's title suggested ""far from the shore"" when she was in fact writing"
"narrative is moving into a significant moment in the past. The use of these italics can be confusing, however, as time shifts are not always marked by the use of italics, and periods of different time in each section do not necessarily stay in italics for the duration of the flashback. Thus, these time shifts can often be jarring and confusing, and require particularly close reading. The title of the novel is taken from Macbeth's famous soliloquy of act 5, scene 5 of William Shakespeare's ""Macbeth"": <poem style=""font-style:italic;""> Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day"
"The Mirror Crack'd The Mirror Crack'd is a 1980 British mystery film based on Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel ""The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side"" (1962) and directed by Guy Hamilton. It stars Angela Lansbury, Kim Novak, Elizabeth Taylor, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, Edward Fox, Rock Hudson and, in his film debut, Pierce Brosnan. This crime/mystery was adapted by Jonathan Hales and Barry Sandler. Scenes were filmed at Twickenham Film Studios, Twickenham, London, UK, and on location in Kent. In 1953 in the English village of St. Mary Mead, home of Miss Jane Marple, a big Hollywood production company"
"of the women who surround him. The title comes from the words of mockery supposedly addressed to Jesus on the cross. The satirical nature of the poem was first identified by Boyd Berry. Although the topics of virtue and religion were considered suitable themes for women writers, Lanier's title poem has been viewed by some modern scholars as a parody of the crucifixion. This argument is made because Lanier uses imagery of the Elizabethan grotesque, found, for instance, in some of the Shakespearean plays, to mock the crucifixion. The views expressed in the poem have been interpreted as ""independent of"
"Mirour de l'Omme Mirour de l'Omme (""the mirror of mankind"") (also ""Speculum Hominis"") which has the Latin title ""Speculum Meditantis"" (""mirror of meditation"") is an Anglo-Norman poem of 29,945 lines written in iambic octosyllables by John Gower. Gower's major theme is man's salvation. Internal evidence (no mention of Richard II) suggests that composition was completed before 1380. Macaulay discovered the only manuscript in the Cambridge University Library. The union of the Devil and Sin produces the seven daughters: Pride, Envy, Ire, Sloth, Avarice, Gluttony and Lechery. Reason and Conscience are unable to save mankind from the daughters and their granddaughters."
"The Mirror of Love The Mirror of Love is an epic poem by Alan Moore, written in the form of a romantic letter. Sappho, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, and many others are woven into this rich, visceral piece, which documents the history of same-sex love throughout mankind's history, and comments on its modern-day state. It was originally written fourteen years ago in a comic form (as part of an AARGH!, or Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia, comic anthology) as a protest against Britain's homophobic Section 28. It was also converted into a stage production. In 2004, Moore teamed"
"quoted: At the end, Miss Marple quotes the last three lines in referring to the dead actress: Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley Cox) was somewhat muted in his praise in his review in ""The Guardian"" of 7 December 1962 when he said, ""she has of course thought up one more brilliant little peg on which to hang her plot, but the chief interest to me of ""The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side"" was the shrewd exposition of what makes a female film star tick the way she does tick. And though one could accept a single coincidence concerning that married"
"Mutability (poem) ""Mutability"" is a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley which appeared in the 1816 collection ""Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude: And Other Poems"". Half of the poem is quoted in his wife Mary Shelley's novel ""Frankenstein"" although his authorship is not acknowledged in either the 1818 or 1831 editions. She is credited as the author of the lines. There is also a prose version of the same themes of the poem in ""Frankenstein"". The Creature or Frankenstein's monster also quotes a line from the poem in the novel. The eight lines from the poem ""Mutability"" which are quoted"
"of discipline oppressed individuals on a broad societal scale, encouraging them to censor aspects of themselves and their actions. The novel also criticizes the emasculation of men in society, particularly in the character of Billy Bibbit, the stuttering Acute patient who is domineered by both Nurse Ratched and his mother. The title of the book is a line from a nursery rhyme: <poem style=""margin-left:2em;""> Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn, Apple seed and apple thorn, Wire, briar, limber lock Three geese in a flock One flew East One flew West And one flew over the cuckoo's nest </poem> Chief Bromden's grandmother sang"
"Anne Hathaway (poem) ""Anne Hathaway"" is a poem by Carol Ann Duffy about Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare. This poem, a sonnet, appears in ""The World's Wife"", published in 1999, a collection of poems. The poem is based on the famous passage from Shakespeare's will regarding his ""second-best bed"". Duffy chooses the view that this would be their marriage bed, and so a memento of their love, not a slight. Anne remembers their lovemaking as a form of ""romance and drama"", unlike the ""prose"" written on the best bed used by guests, ""I hold him in the casket"
"acrostic poem written in English by Edgar Allan Poe is entitled simply ""An Acrostic"": <poem style=""margin-left: 2em""> Elizabeth it is in vain you say ""Love not""—thou sayest it in so sweet a way: In vain those words from thee or L.E.L. Zantippe's talents had enforced so well: Ah! if that language from thy heart arise, Breath it less gently forth—and veil thine eyes. Endymion, recollect, when Luna tried To cure his love—was cured of all beside— His follie—pride—and passion—for he died. </poem> In Lewis Carroll's ""Through the Looking-Glass"", the final chapter ""A Boat, Beneath A Sunny Sky"" is an acrostic"
"The Rose and the Yew Tree The Rose and the Yew Tree is a tragedy novel written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by William Heinemann Ltd in November 1948 and in the US by Farrar & Rinehart later in the same year. It is the fourth of six novels Christie published under the nom-de-plume Mary Westmacott. The title of the novel is taken from Section V of ""Little Gidding"" from T. S. Eliot's ""Four Quartets"". The full line, as quoted in the epigraph to the novel, is: Hugh Norreys, crippled in a road accident, watches from"
"poem. The phrase ""flower in the crannied wall"" is sometimes used in a metaphorical sense for the idea of seeking holistic and grander principles from constituent parts and their connections. Flower in the Crannied Wall ""Flower in the Crannied Wall"" is an 1863 poem by Alfred Tennyson. <poem> Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower—but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is. </poem> Tennyson composed the poem by"
"the story, the introduction to the Oxford edition of the ""Christmas Books"" does. In Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick"", Ishmael describes a windswept and cold night from the perspective of Lazarus (""Poor Lazarus, chattering his teeth against the curbstone..."") and Dives (""...the privilege of making my own summer with my own coals""). The poem ""The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"" by T. S. Eliot contains the lines: 'To say: ""I am Lazarus, come from the dead,/Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all""' in reference to Dives' request to have Beggar Lazarus return from the dead to tell"
"for ""desolate sea"", and collocation for ""clinic heart"". The poem was also the prescribed portion in the AISSCE (CBSE 12th - India). Curtain (poem) Curtain is a poem by Helen Spalding which talks about the separation of two young lovers during World War II. The poem is set in the period of 1930-1946 against a turbulent, socio-political background. The separation is mutually imposed by the pair, who are called two ghosts, two Hamlets, and two soliloquies in the final stanza of the poem. The poem consists of four stanzas, all about 20 lines. It starts with the word Goodbye, and"
"The Convergence of the Twain ""The Convergence of the Twain (Lines on the loss of the ""Titanic"")"" is a poem by Thomas Hardy, published in 1912. The poem describes the sinking and wreckage of the ocean liner ""Titanic"". ""Convergence"" consists of eleven stanzas (""I"" to ""XI"") of three lines each, following the AAA rhyme pattern. Hardy was asked to compose a poem to be read at a charity concert to raise funds in aid of the tragedy disaster fund. It was first published as part of the souvenir program for that event. One interpretation is that Hardy's controversial poem contrasts"
"The Sea and the Mirror ""The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"""" is a long poem by W.H. Auden, written 1942–44, and first published in 1944. Auden regarded the work as “my ""Ars Poetica,"" in the same way I believe ""The Tempest"" to have been Shakespeare’s.” The poem is a series of dramatic monologues spoken by the characters in Shakespeare's play after the end of the play itself. These are rendered in a variety of verse forms from villanelles, sonnets, sestinas, and finally Jamesian prose, the forms corresponding to the nature of the characters e.g. Ferdinand"
"the epigraph for Evelyn Scott's 1921 novel ""The Narrow House"". According to Pat Tyler the women in this novel have been ""hardened by her life experiences. Each is solely concerned with her own survival, hardened to the suffering of the others."" The Clod and the Pebble The Clod and the Pebble is a poem from William Blake's 1794 collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience. <poem>Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care; But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. So sung a little Clod of Clay, Trodden with the"
"Night"" by Jim Morrison and The Doors. The Agatha Christie novel ""Endless Night""s title was inspired by this poem. Six lines of the poem were recited in a 1995 film, ""Dead Man"". The lines were recited by the character named Nobody. The lines of the poem beginning ′A truth...′ are quoted in Chapter 11 of the Phillip Pullman Novel ""The Amber Spyglass"" (2000). The first four lines of the poem were recited in the film """" (2001) by Angelina Jolie. On May 10, 2015, the first four lines of the poem were recited in Season 2 Episode 2 (titled ""Verbis"
"poem. It was arranged in three versions for piano by Franz Liszt. The piece was composed as a setting of a song (verse XXIX from Canto Three) from Walter Scott's popular epic poem ""The Lady of the Lake"", in a German translation by (1780–1822), and thus forms part of Schubert's . In Scott's poem the character Ellen Douglas, the Lady of the Lake (Loch Katrine in the Scottish Highlands), has gone with her exiled father to stay in the Goblin's cave as he has declined to join their previous host, Roderick Dhu, in rebellion against King James. Roderick Dhu, the"
"Elinor's husband, not Roddy. The Victims: In the village In the courtroom The title comes from a song from Act II, Scene IV of Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night"" which is printed as an epigraph to the novel. <poem>Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with yew, O, prepare it! My part of death, no one so true Did share it.</poem> The novel is written in three parts: in the first place an account, largely from the"
"up with illustrator José Villarrubia, and the duo re-released the work, adding photographs to each poetic passage. The Mirror of Love The Mirror of Love is an epic poem by Alan Moore, written in the form of a romantic letter. Sappho, Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, and many others are woven into this rich, visceral piece, which documents the history of same-sex love throughout mankind's history, and comments on its modern-day state. It was originally written fourteen years ago in a comic form (as part of an AARGH!, or Artists Against Rampant Government Homophobia, comic anthology) as a protest"
"the poem after reading Jules Verne's novel ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"", which had recently been published in book form, and which is known to have been the source of many of the poem's allusions and images. Another Verne novel, ""The Adventures of Captain Hatteras"", was likely an additional source of inspiration. The poem is arranged in a series of 25 alexandrine quatrains with an ""a/b/a/b"" rhyme-scheme. It is woven around the delirious visions of the eponymous boat, swamped and lost at sea. It was considered revolutionary in its use of imagery and symbolism. One of the longest and"
"Curtain (poem) Curtain is a poem by Helen Spalding which talks about the separation of two young lovers during World War II. The poem is set in the period of 1930-1946 against a turbulent, socio-political background. The separation is mutually imposed by the pair, who are called two ghosts, two Hamlets, and two soliloquies in the final stanza of the poem. The poem consists of four stanzas, all about 20 lines. It starts with the word Goodbye, and the first stanza ends with the same word. A number of poetic devices are used in the poem, including a transferred epithet"
"a favourite poem of Agatha Christie, who quotes it in two of her novels, ""The Moving Finger"" and ""Ordeal by Innocence"". Still, the larger literary world largely dismissed her work. ""The Cambridge History of English and American Literature"", for example, wrote: ""If we had nothing of Jean Ingelow’s but the most remarkable poem entitled Divided, it would be permissible to suppose the loss [of her], in fact or in might-have-been, of a poetess of almost the highest rank... Jean Ingelow wrote some other good things, but nothing at all equalling this; while she also wrote too much and too long."""
"after the ""maiden"" in the poem ""Annabel Lee"" by Poe; this poem is alluded to many times in the novel, and its lines are borrowed to describe Humbert's love. A passage in chapter 11 reuses Poe's phrase ""...by the side of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride"". In the opening of the novel, the phrase ""Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied,"" is a pastiche of two passages of the poem, the ""winged seraphs of heaven"" (line 11), and ""The angels, not half so happy in heaven,"
"in Frank Bidart's notes to Lowell's ""Collected Poems"", Bidart writes that the title comes from ""the anonymous Scottish ballad 'Lamkin.'"" Bidart goes on to explain that in the ballad's narrative, ""Lord Weary refuses to pay the stonemason Lamkin for building his castle; in revenge for this betrayal, Lambkin kills Weary's wife and child."" Bidart does not offer any explanation as to how the story of Lamkin and Lord Weary's castle relates to the content of Lowell's book. However, in a review of the book that appeared in ""Poetry"" magazine, the critic Austin Warren offered the explanation that the book's title"