Events
- Dead Poets Society, a film incorporating excerpts from many traditional poets, ending with the title and opening line of Walt Whitman's lament on the death of Abraham Lincoln, "O Captain! My Captain!"
- My Left Foot, a film about Christy Brown, the Irish poet, and based on his autobiography
Read more about this topic: 1989 In Poetry
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something that makes me feel at home.”
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