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"Antigonish" is an 1899 poem by the American educator and poet, William Hughes Mearns. It is also known as "The Little Human being Who Wasn't There" and was adapted equally a hit song under the latter title.

Poem [edit]

Inspired by reports of a ghost of a homo roaming the stairs of a haunted business firm, in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada,[one] the poem was originally part of a play called The Psyco-ed, which Mearns had written for an English language class at Harvard University, circa 1899.[2] In 1910, Mearns staged the play with the Plays and Players, an amateur theatrical group, and on March 27, 1922, the paper columnist FPA printed the verse form in "The Conning Tower", his column in the New York World.[2] [3] Mearns afterward wrote many parodies of this poem, giving them the full general title of Later Antigonishes.[4]

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

When I came abode last night at three
The homo was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall,
I couldn't see him at that place at all!
Go away, become away, don't you come back whatsoever more!
Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door...

Last night I saw upon the stair,
A little man who wasn't in that location,
He wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish he'd go away....

Employ in media [edit]

  • Father Brown, Flavour 9, Episode 9, "The Enigma of Antigonish", the villain uses the poem as the idea backside a plot mechanism whereby a, suspect existence already dead, wouldn't be sought for the murders of several witnesses that had given testify that resulted in the villain's past incarceration for another criminal offense.
  • Horror fiction podcast The Magnus Athenaeum focuses its 85th episode "Upon the Stair" on a paranormal entity inspired past the poem. The poem is mentioned and read aloud in the episode.
  • In the miniseries Gallipoli, Season one, Episode i, General, Sir Ian Hamilton recites the poem.
  • In the Idiot box show Expiry in Paradise, Season 4, Episode 1 "Stab In The Dark", Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman references the verse form while solving the murder of a distiller.
  • In the TV evidence Fear the Walking Dead, Flavour 3, Episode 6 "Burning in H2o, Drowning in Flame (Fear the Walking Expressionless)", Madison Clark and other Broke Jaw Ranch dwellers discover a conscious human with his brain exposed, reciting the verse form out loud.
  • In the Tv testify Midsomer Murders, Flavour 5, Episode v "Worm in the Bud", Primary Detective Inspector Barnaby quotes the outset stanza of the poem when mentioning the case he was working on made no sense.
  • In the Television set show Sapphire & Steel, Flavor ii, Episode 10 The kickoff 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 Telly prove McDonald and Dodds, Season 2, Episode one The first stanza of the poem is spoken by ii members of the Bath police force during the investigation of a man who obviously plummeted to his death, falling from a gasbag balloon.
  • In The Trial of Christine Keeler, based on the chain of events surrounding the Profumo affair in the 1960s, Dr. Stephen Ward - played by James Norton - recites the verse form several times.
  • The pic Identity opens with convict Malcom Rivers reciting the verse form, claiming to have made it up when he was a child. Information technology's too the closing phrase in the film.
  • In the movie "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 inquiry that appears to points to suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald every bit being the "prayer human", a figure continuing on the forepart steps of the Texas School Book Depository during the assassination of Us President John F. Kennedy.[six]

Song [edit]

  • In 1939, "Antigonish" was adapted every bit a popular vocal titled "The Little Man Who Wasn't There", past Harold Adamson with music by Bernie Hanighen, both of whom received the songwriting credits.[iii]
  • A July 12, 1939 recording of the song by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, with vocals by Tex Beneke, became an xi-week hit on Your Hit Parade and reached #7.

Other versions were recorded by:

  • Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
  • Larry Clinton & His Orchestra with vocals past 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 Ring recording.
  • In 2018, the experimental industrial group The Reptile Skins released an EP entitled Antigonish with the ii lead singers having a unlike interpretation of the poem.
  • The opening verse is featured on the opening track "Ytterligare ett steg närmare total jävla utfrysning" off the album Halmstad by Swedish band Shining

See also [edit]

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

References [edit]

  1. ^ Colombo, John Robert (1984). Canadian Literary Landmarks. Dundurn Printing. ISBN978-0-88882-073-0.
  2. ^ a b McCord, David Thompson Watson (1955). What Cheer: An Album of American and British Humorous and Witty Poetry. 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 Action. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 96. ISBN9780156482400. {{cite book}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
    - Mearns, quoted by Colombo, John Robert (2000). Ghost Stories of Canada. Dundurn. p. 46. ISBN9781550029758. . Italics and exclamation points.
    - Mearns, quoted by Gardner, Martin (2012). Best Remembered Poems. Courier. p. 107. ISBN9780486116402.
  6. ^ Dane, Stan. Prayer Human: 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)

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