Media References
Emily Dickinson penned many poems about the bird (The text follows R.W. Franklin's edition; the numbering is 1620 in Franklin's edition, while it is listed as 1591 in Thomas H. Johnson's.)
The Bobolink is also mentioned in the song Evelina by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, from the musical Bloomer Girl:
- Evelina, won't ya ever take a shine to that moon?
- Evelina, ain't ya bothered by the Bobolink's tune?
The Bobolink is also one of the many important ornithological references in Vladimir Nabokov's John Shade's poem "Pale Fire" in the novel of the same name:
Sophia Jewett ends her poem An Exile's Garden (1910) with a reference to a Bobolink.
The bobolink is also mentioned in the film The Mouse on the Moon in connection with the fictional European microstate of Grand Fenwick,where oddly the bird is apparently common.
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