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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840, at Upper Bockhampton in Dorset. After several years as an apprentice in architecture, he began writing fiction and, over a thirty-year period, produced fourteen novels and a
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Darkling Thrush, The
I leant upon a coppice gate
When Frost was specter-gray,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
The weakening eye of day.
5The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.
The land's sharp features seemed to be
Poetry Trivia
Question:
What poem was the source of the title of the 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?
Answer
Alexander Pope's (1688-1744) "Eloisa to Abelard." ("How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! / The world forgetting, by the world forgot; / Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! / Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.")
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