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Poetry in Spooks - help please! - Nixie - 25-02-2011 01:08 AM
Being in Australia where Spooks is screened 12 months after its UK screening, I'm hanging out for my S9 DVD.
Problem: I'm going to receive it mid-semester when I should be studying ...
Solution: Write an assignment based on Spooks, so viewing becomes 'research' not 'entertainment'. (Ahh, the mind games we play with ourselves ...) I'm doing an MA and need to put together a short anthology of poems and thought I'd try and track down as many references/quotes from Spooks as possible and make my theme something like "Classical poetry references in British TV series Spooks".
Unfortunately, I don't have time to re-watch all of the series to date, so any help would be much appreciated.
So far I have, with help, found:
S3.7 Abu Nuwas quoted by Ruth
S5.2 Walt Whitman quoted for Colin’s funeral
S5.2 Rupert Brooke from ‘The Old Vicarage, Grantchester’ by Harry
S7.? Spike Milligan ‘On the Ning Nang Nong’ discussed by Harry & Qualtrough
S7.1 John McCrae ‘In Flanders Fields’
S8.8 Schiller “Alle Menschen werden Brüder” (Ode to Joy) by Harry
S9.1 reading unknown, as I’ve not seen this yet
There are also these Shakespeare references, which I reckon count as poetry:
S5.4 Shakespeare (Measure for Measure) by Malcolm
S2.5 Shakespeare (Henry IV) by Ruth
S8.? Shakespeare (King Lear) by Sarah Caulfiel
Can anyone add to this list?
RE: Poetry in Spooks - help please! - Silktie - 25-02-2011 06:39 AM
Another King Lear quote in episode 3.6 by Adam.
RE: Poetry in Spooks - help please! - JHyde - 25-02-2011 08:20 AM
A few of us have been adding some more over at Skully's blog, which is always worth visiting anyway
RE: Poetry in Spooks - help please! - FATBOY - 25-02-2011 08:47 AM
Think Lucas North is a big William Blake fan, but can't remember any poetry actually quoted.
RE: Poetry in Spooks - help please! - Nixie - 25-02-2011 08:47 AM
(25-02-2011 06:39 AM)Silktie Wrote: Another King Lear quote in episode 3.6 by Adam.
Thanks, Silktie, I'll add that to my list
JHyde, your and others' contributions are what's making the list a reality and not just a madcap scheme 