Comments on: 7 Names Inspired By Poetry

By: Xavier

Xavier — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:40:00 +0000

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:25:00 +0000

The novel “Of Mice and Men” gets its title from the Robert Burns poem “To a Mouse” — “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley.”

By: Southern Buddhist

Southern Buddhist — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:45:00 +0000

It’s a bit of a cheat since you already used this poem, but in Louisiana’s Cajun parishes (I believe in Lafayette) there is an Evangeline Oak commemorating the travels and travails of the Cajuns and their ejection from Nova Scotia.

Sooo many things are named out of Shakespeare. One couplet from Macbath yielded the names of two books, one by Agatha Christie, one by Ray Bradbury:

By the pricking of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes.

Then there’s Huxley’s _Brave New World_ (from Miranda’s line in The Tempest).

Books with names from Shakespeare could be a category all its own.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:00:00 +0000

Auburn, Alabama and Auburn University from “The Deserted Village” by Oliver Goldsmith. The first line of the poem reads “Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain”

Another line in the poem inspired the Auburn University athletics mascot the tiger, “Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey,”

By: Marion

Marion — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:43:00 +0000

“Till Human Voices Wake Us” – 2002 movie

From the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, TS Eliot. From the same poem:

“I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing”.

By: TexasBrian

TexasBrian — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:20:00 +0000

Xanadu — the movie!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge would have been proud :-)