In Poetry
- French poet Arthur Rimbaud wrote a long poem called Ophélie, likely inspired by a reproduction of the Waterhouse painting. See http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/poesies/Ophelia.html
- In T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land, several allusions are made to Ophelia's death: for example, one section is titled "Death by Water".
- Richard Brautigan's poem "The Rape of Ophelia" portrays Ophelia dying as a result of a rape, rather than by drowning.
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