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"Antigonish" is an 1899 verse form by the American educator and poet, William Hughes Mearns. It is likewise known as "The Little Man Who Wasn't There" and was adjusted equally a hit song under the latter championship.

Poem [edit]

Inspired by reports of a ghost of a human being roaming the stairs of a haunted business firm, in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada,[ane] the poem was originally part of a play chosen The Psyco-ed, which Mearns had written for an English grade at Harvard Academy, circa 1899.[2] In 1910, Mearns staged the play with the Plays and Players, an amateur theatrical group, and on March 27, 1922, the newspaper columnist FPA printed the verse form in "The Conning Belfry", his column in the New York World.[2] [iii] Mearns subsequently wrote many parodies of this poem, giving them the general title of After Antigonishes.[4]

Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't at that place!
He wasn't there again today,
Oh how I wish he'd go away![5]

When I came home concluding night at iii
The human being was waiting there for me
But when I looked effectually the hall,
I couldn't see him there at all!
Become away, become abroad, don't you come back whatever more!
Go abroad, get away, and delight don't slam the door...

Terminal nighttime I saw upon the stair,
A little man who wasn't at that place,
He wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish he'd go abroad....

Use in media [edit]

  • Father Chocolate-brown, Season 9, Episode 9, "The Enigma of Antigonish", the villain uses the verse form every bit the idea behind a plot machinery whereby a, suspect being already dead, wouldn't exist sought for the murders of several witnesses that had given testify that resulted in the villain's past incarceration for another crime.
  • Horror fiction podcast The Magnus Archives focuses its 85th episode "Upon the Stair" on a paranormal entity inspired by the poem. The poem is mentioned and read aloud in the episode.
  • In the miniseries Gallipoli, Season 1, Episode ane, Full general, Sir Ian Hamilton recites the poem.
  • In the Boob tube bear witness Death in Paradise, Flavor 4, Episode 1 "Stab In The Dark", Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman references the poem while solving the murder of a distiller.
  • In the Television set evidence Fear the Walking Dead, Flavor 3, Episode six "Burning in H2o, Drowning in Flame (Fright the Walking Expressionless)", Madison Clark and other Broke Jaw Ranch dwellers find a conscious man with his encephalon exposed, reciting the poem out loud.
  • In the Goggle box show Midsomer Murders, Season five, Episode 5 "Worm in the Bud", Main Detective Inspector Barnaby quotes the first stanza of the poem when mentioning the instance he was working on made no sense.
  • In the Tv show Sapphire & Steel, Flavor ii, Episode 10 The first stanza of the poem is heard three times in a ghost story about children trapped in photographs by a man (spirit) with no face.
  • In the Television set show McDonald and Dodds, Season two, Episode one The first stanza of the poem is spoken by 2 members of the Bath law force during the investigation of a man who plainly plummeted to his death, falling from a hot-air balloon.
  • In The Trial of Christine Keeler, based on the chain of events surrounding the Profumo matter in the 1960s, Dr. Stephen Ward - played by James Norton - recites the verse form several times.
  • The movie Identity opens with convict Malcom Rivers reciting the poem, claiming to have made it upwardly when he was a child. It'south also the endmost phrase in the picture.
  • In the picture "The Haunting in Connecticut", Matt Campbell recites the poem to his cousin.
  • The poem is used in Stan Dane's volume Prayer Man: The Exoneration of Lee Harvey Oswald to insinuate to enquiry that appears to points to suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald equally being the "prayer human being", a figure standing on the front steps of the Texas School Book Depository during the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy.[6]

Song [edit]

  • In 1939, "Antigonish" was adjusted as a popular song titled "The Piffling Man Who Wasn't There", by Harold Adamson with music past Bernie Hanighen, both of whom received the songwriting credits.[3]
  • A July 12, 1939 recording of the song by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, with vocals past Tex Beneke, became an eleven-week hit on Your Hit Parade and reached #seven.

Other versions were recorded past:

  • Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  • Larry Clinton & His Orchestra with vocals by Ford Leary
  • Bob Crosby & His Orchestra with vocals by Teddy Grace
  • Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra with vocals by Teagarden
  • In 2016 The Odd Chap released an Electro Swing version using soundtrack from the Glenn Miller Band recording.
  • In 2018, the experimental industrial group The Reptile Skins released an EP entitled Antigonish with the two atomic number 82 singers having a dissimilar interpretation of the poem.
  • The opening poetry is featured on the opening rail "Ytterligare ett steg närmare total jävla utfrysning" off the album Halmstad past Swedish band Shining

See also [edit]

  • Extensional and intensional definitions
  • Plato'south beard
  • The Human Who Sold the World (song), a vocal past David Bowie

References [edit]

  1. ^ Colombo, John Robert (1984). Canadian Literary Landmarks. Dundurn Press. ISBN978-0-88882-073-0.
  2. ^ a b McCord, David Thompson Watson (1955). What Cheer: An Anthology of American and British Humorous and Witty Verse. New York: The Modern Library. p. 429.
  3. ^ a b Kahn, E. J. (September 30, 1939). "Creative Mearns". The New Yorker. p. 11.
  4. ^ Colombo (2000), p.47.
  5. ^ Mearns, quoted by Hayakawa, Samuel Ichiyé & Hayakawa, Alan R. (1990). Language in Thought and Activity. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 96. ISBN9780156482400. {{cite book}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
    - Mearns, quoted past Colombo, John Robert (2000). Ghost Stories of Canada. Dundurn. p. 46. ISBN9781550029758. . Italics and assertion points.
    - Mearns, quoted by Gardner, Martin (2012). Best Remembered Poems. Courier. p. 107. ISBN9780486116402.
  6. ^ Dane, Stan. Prayer Man: The Exoneration of Lee Harvey Oswald (Martian Publishing, 2015), p. 190. ISBN 1944205012

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigonish_(poem)