"filmmaking was only temporary. ""Doing something once in a while, like ""The Mirror Crack'd,"" is fine and it makes me feel like Cinderella at the ball. But as a steady diet - no way."" The title - shortened from the one used for Christie's book - is part of a line from ""The Lady of Shalott"" by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Biographers theorise that Christie used an incident in the real-life of American film star Gene Tierney as the basis of the plot of ""The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side"". In June 1943, while pregnant with her"
"woman. Oenone's song is similar to the events described in the poem. The city of Troy was created in song and ends with its eminent destruction. In a similar manner, Oenone's song comes from the destruction left by Paris. She also shifts from the Mariana-like prisoner type of character to the Fatima-like self-destructive character as the poem progresses. Changes between the 1832 and 1842 edition of the poems reflect changes in Tennyson's role as the poet creating a song and, thus, his similarity to Oenone as a character. Tennyson's 1832 collection of poems was savaged by John Wilson Croker in"
"The Lady of Shalott ""The Lady of Shalott"" is a lyrical ballad by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892). It tells the story of a young noble woman imprisoned in a tower on an island near Camelot. She can only watch the outside world through a mirror and must weave what she sees. She has heard that if she looks at Camelot directly, she will be cursed. One of the poet's best-known works, its vivid medieval romanticism and enigmatic symbolism inspired many painters, especially the Pre-Raphaelites and their followers. Like his other early poems – ""Sir Lancelot and Queen"
"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"
"London, ""The Crimson Petal and the White"", published in 2002. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal ""Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal"" is a sonnet poem written by Alfred Tennyson. It was first published in 1847, in ""The Princess: A Medley"". The poem has been set to music several times, including settings by Benjamin Britten, Roger Quilter, Ned Rorem, Mychael Danna and Paul Mealor. It also appeared as a song in the 2004 film ""Vanity Fair"" (based on Thackeray's novel from 1848), sung by the character Becky Sharp. Writer and poet Oscar Wilde included a reference to Tennyson's poem in the last"
"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 wishing well at Waggoners Wells. The Tennyson memorial statue (1903) by George Frederic Watts at Lincoln shows him holding a flower in his hand and a plaque with this"
"in all of English poetry, the last of the following four, albeit very few are aware of the poem whence it came, and it is often, perhaps usually, misquoted: James Thurber illustrated this poem for ""Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated"". Elizabeth Gaskell mentions the poem in her 1853 novel ""Cranford"". Lines from it are quoted in the 2007 adaptation of the novel. Locksley Hall ""Locksley Hall"" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson in 1835 and published in his 1842 collection of ""Poems"". It narrates the emotions of a rejected suitor come to his childhood home, the"
"The Princess (Tennyson poem) The Princess is a serio-comic blank verse narrative poem, written by Alfred Tennyson, published in 1847. Tennyson was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1850 to 1892 and remains one of the most popular English poets. The poem tells the story of a heroic princess who forswears the world of men and founds a women's university where men are forbidden to enter. The prince to whom she was betrothed in infancy enters the university with two friends, disguised as women students. They are discovered and flee, but eventually they fight a battle for the princess's"
"Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal ""Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal"" is a sonnet poem written by Alfred Tennyson. It was first published in 1847, in ""The Princess: A Medley"". The poem has been set to music several times, including settings by Benjamin Britten, Roger Quilter, Ned Rorem, Mychael Danna and Paul Mealor. It also appeared as a song in the 2004 film ""Vanity Fair"" (based on Thackeray's novel from 1848), sung by the character Becky Sharp. Writer and poet Oscar Wilde included a reference to Tennyson's poem in the last paragraph of his essay ""The Decay of Lying"": ""The final"
"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"
"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"
"Ulysses (poem) ""Ulysses"" is a poem in blank verse by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), written in 1833 and published in 1842 in his well-received second volume of poetry. An oft-quoted poem, it is popularly used to illustrate the dramatic monologue form. Facing old age, mythical hero Ulysses describes his discontent and restlessness upon returning to his kingdom, Ithaca, after his far-ranging travels. Despite his reunion with his wife Penelope and son Telemachus, Ulysses yearns to explore again. The character of Ulysses (in Greek, Odysseus) has been explored widely in literature. The adventures of Odysseus were first recorded"
"The Deserted House ""The Deserted House"" is a poem written by Alfred Lord Tennyson in 1830, as part of his collection ""Poems, Chiefly Lyrical"". The poem is characterised by its reliance on short lines which alternate in rhyme and meter to prevent a felicitous feel. In the poem, Tennyson uses the image of a dark house as a metaphor for a dead body. ""The Deserted House"" was printed along with other poems of Tennyson's juvenilia in his collection, ""Poems, Chiefly Lyrical"" of 1830. The poem was printed alongside works that included ""The Dying Swan"", ""The Mystic"", ""Ode to Memory"", ""The"
"around the same time, such as ""Tithonus"" and ""Ulysses"". Michael Thorn, in his 1992 biography of Tennyson, claims, ""This poem, so often anthologized, is a perfect example of how biography can be used to reinvigorate a work grown dull with repetition and familiarity. Almost certainly written during this visit to Mablethorpe [...] knowledge of the biographical background creates a cinematically clear image of the cloaked poet looking resentfully at the cheerful fisherman's child, the equally jovial sailor, and the ships at sea. It is one of the great short lyrics"". In 1906 the composer Cyril Rootham set Tennyson's elegy ""Break,"
"detail and bright colours associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. ""The Lady of Shalott"" pictures the Lady, who is the main character in Tennyson's poem, also titled ""The Lady of Shalott"" (1842), who is facing her destiny. The Lady has made her way to this small boat with a few of her belongings. She had been confined to her quarters, not allowed to go outside or even look outdoors. ""A curse is on her if she stay"", wrote Tennyson. In the poem, a curse had been put on the Lady, but she defies the rules of the curse to see if she"
"globe and is sometimes classified as folk music in record stores. McKennitt is occasionally compared to Enya, but McKennitt's music is more grounded in traditional and classical invocations, using literary works as sources of lyrics and springboards for interpretation such as ""The Lady of Shalott"" by Lord Tennyson, ""Prospero's Speech"" (the final soliloquy in William Shakespeare's ""The Tempest""), the Northumbrian murder ballad ""The Twa Sisters"" (which inspired ""The Bonny Swans"" on ""The Mask and Mirror""), ""Snow"" by Archibald Lampman, ""Dark Night of the Soul"" by St. John of the Cross, Dante's ""Inferno"", William Blake's ""Lullaby"", Yeats' ""The Stolen Child,"" ""The"
"undergraduates, based on an old chronicle. Though the poem was moderately successful, Tennyson wrote to a friend, saying ""I hate it and so will you"". He revised the work after its first publication. Some of the best-known lyrics, including ""The splendour falls on castle walls"" were added for the third edition (1850). As with many of Tennyson's works, ""The Princess"" has an outer setting to the main narrative, consisting of a Prologue and a Conclusion that take place at a Victorian-era summer ""fête"". The characters in the Prologue agree to participate in a storytelling game about a heroic princess in"
"a ""Quarterly Review"" article of April 1833. The review was based on a close reading of the various poems followed by attacks on the content. Of the various poems attacked, 'Oenone' was the truest hit, as Croker focused on how the poem was filled with unclear descriptions. Oenone (poem) ""Oenone"" or ""Œnone"" is a poem written by Alfred Tennyson in 1829. The poem describes the Greek mythological character Oenone and her witnessing incidents in the life of her lover, Paris, as he is involved in the events of the Trojan War. ""Oenone"" was inspired by Tennyson's trip to Spain, where"
"The Testament of Cresseid The Testament of Cresseid is a narrative poem of 616 lines in Middle Scots, written by the 15th-century Scottish makar Robert Henryson. It is his best known poem. It imagines a tragic fate for Cressida in the medieval story of ""Troilus and Criseyde"" which was left untold in Geoffrey Chaucer's version. Henryson's cogent psychological drama, in which he consciously resists and confronts the routine depiction of Cressida (Cresseid) as simply 'false', is one of the features that has given the poem enduring interest for modern readers and it is one of the most admired works of"
"For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar.</poem> Crossing the Bar ""Crossing the Bar"" is an 1889 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It is considered that Tennyson wrote it in elegy; the poem has a tone of finality and the narrator uses an extended metaphor to compare death with crossing the ""sandbar"" between river of life, with its outgoing ""flood"", and the ocean that lies beyond [death], the ""boundless deep"", to which we return. Tennyson is believed"
"written in mirror-writing. She holds a mirror to one of the poems and reads the reflected verse of ""Jabberwocky"". She finds the nonsense verse as puzzling as the odd land she has passed into, later revealed as a dreamscape. ""Jabberwocky"" is considered one of the greatest nonsense poems written in English. Its playful, whimsical language has given English nonsense words and neologisms such as ""galumphing"" and ""chortle"". A decade before the publication of ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and the sequel ""Through the Looking-Glass"", Carroll wrote the first stanza to what would become ""Jabberwocky"" while in Croft on Tees, close to"
"mountain. They say that the fragment is vital to understanding the poem in the way that the mountain depicted is in fact the whole poem and the eagle, being a part of the mountains identity, is a loss when the eagle falls. The uncertainty of the poem being complete or incomplete reinforces the open ended question of what happens to the eagle at the end of the poem. The Eagle (poem) ""The Eagle (Fragment)"" is a short poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which was first published in 1851. Alfred, Lord Tennyson lived during the Victorian Era during the 1800s. This"
"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:"
"Poems (Tennyson, 1842) Poems, by Alfred Tennyson, was a two-volume 1842 collection in which new poems and reworked older ones were printed in separate volumes. It includes some of Tennyson's finest and best-loved poems, such as ""Mariana"", ""The Lady of Shalott"", ""The Palace of Art"", ""The Lotos Eaters"", ""Ulysses"", ""Locksley Hall"", ""The Two Voices"", ""Sir Galahad"", and ""Break, Break, Break"". It helped to establish his reputation as one of the greatest poets of his time. The first volume of the book consists of poems taken from his 1830 ""Poems, Chiefly Lyrical"" and 1832 (the imprint reads 1833) ""Poems"", and the"
"many seeing him as the leading poet of the younger generation, worthy of one day being made Poet Laureate. Poems (Tennyson, 1842) Poems, by Alfred Tennyson, was a two-volume 1842 collection in which new poems and reworked older ones were printed in separate volumes. It includes some of Tennyson's finest and best-loved poems, such as ""Mariana"", ""The Lady of Shalott"", ""The Palace of Art"", ""The Lotos Eaters"", ""Ulysses"", ""Locksley Hall"", ""The Two Voices"", ""Sir Galahad"", and ""Break, Break, Break"". It helped to establish his reputation as one of the greatest poets of his time. The first volume of the book"
"The Window (song cycle) The Window; or, The Songs of the Wrens is a song cycle by Arthur Sullivan with words by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Written in 1867–70, it was eventually published in 1871. There are multiple versions of the title: On the cover of the 1871 edition, the subtitle is given as ""The Loves of the Wrens"", however, ""Songs of the Wrens"" is used on the frontispiece and is the one generally used. George Grove, the secretary of The Crystal Palace, originally suggested a collaboration between Tennyson and Sullivan on a German-style song cycle, in English, but similar to"
"poems of Tennyson that represented his ""fineness of workmanship and depth of feeling"". Later in 1899, Stephen Gwynn argues, ""Even among the Juvenilia, ""The Deserted House"" is not easy to forget"". The Deserted House ""The Deserted House"" is a poem written by Alfred Lord Tennyson in 1830, as part of his collection ""Poems, Chiefly Lyrical"". The poem is characterised by its reliance on short lines which alternate in rhyme and meter to prevent a felicitous feel. In the poem, Tennyson uses the image of a dark house as a metaphor for a dead body. ""The Deserted House"" was printed along"
"Break, Break, Break ""Break, Break, Break"" is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson written during early 1835 and published in 1842. The poem is an elegy that describes Tennyson's feelings of loss after Arthur Hallam died and his feelings of isolation while at Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire. The poem is minimalistic in terms of detail and style. During the Christmas holiday of 1834/1835, Tennyson was working on many poems, including ""In Memoriam"". He also became dissatisfied with his earlier works and was busy revising the poems that he was still willing to see as publishable. The poem describes feelings of loss and"
"along with it. As time wears on, age catches up with him. Wasted and withered, Tithonus is reduced to a mere shadow of himself. But since he is immortal, he cannot die and is destined to live forever, growing older and older with each passing day. The main classical source that Tennyson draws upon is from the story of Aphrodite's relationship with Anchises in the ancient Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. In this Aphrodite briefly tells of Eos's foolishness in neglecting to ask Zeus for immortal youth for Tithonus along with his immortality. The original version of the poem, named ""Tithon"","
"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 his other pieces. ""The Two Voices"" has been criticized as unnecessarily long and lacking any sort of literary resolution, that it ""seems to be one of those works whose end cycles back to the beginning"" The ambiguity between all the voices involved has been considered to be too much for even the experienced reader to interpret and the meaning is too difficult to decipher. The Two Voices ""The Two Voices"" is a poem written by future Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom Alfred, Lord Tennyson between 1833 and 1834. It was included in his 1842 collection of ""Poems"". Tennyson"
"The Lamplighter (poem) The Lamplighter is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1885 in Penny Whistles (better known today as A Child's Garden of Verses). This poem may be autobiographical. Stevenson was sickly growing up (probably tuberculosis), thus ""when I am stronger"" may refer to his hope of recovery. Further, his illness isolated him, so the loneliness expressed in the poem would fit well with his own childhood. Stevenson's poem also makes reference to the divide that exists between children and adults. This is seen when the speaker says that his father is a banker and rejects following"
"Needle"" are enchanted and bring the prince to marry the poor heroine. Sleeping Beauty, in all her forms, pricks her finger on a spindle, and the curse falls on her. In Alfred Tennyson's poem ""The Lady of Shalott"", her woven representations of the world have protected and entrapped Elaine of Astolat, whose first encounter with reality outside proves mortal. William Holman Hunt's painting from the poem (""illustration, right"") contrasts the completely pattern-woven interior with the sunlit world reflected in the roundel mirror. On the wall, woven representations of Myth (""Hesperides"") and Religion (""Prayer"") echo the mirror's open roundel; the tense"