! I hadn't ever made that connection to the poem -- I'm mostly familiar with that first stanza, for obvious reasons.
Hee. Now I need to go read the whole thing.
I agree with you that liking the movie is often going to depend heavily on how much you can take it as its own thing. I tried. But the first part was too much like the book for me not to resent the way it changed course halfway through; by then I wanted it to go on and do the rest of the book, too.
ETA: I wasn't awake when I read your comment. It's an allusion to a different poem, not "Song;" nevermind.
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Date: 2011-04-25 07:29 pm (UTC)Hee. Now I need to go read the whole thing.
I agree with you that liking the movie is often going to depend heavily on how much you can take it as its own thing. I tried. But the first part was too much like the book for me not to resent the way it changed course halfway through; by then I wanted it to go on and do the rest of the book, too.
ETA: I wasn't awake when I read your comment. It's an allusion to a different poem, not "Song;" nevermind.