In Popular Culture
The poem is featured in both the 1967 novel The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton and the 1983 film adaptation, read aloud by the character Ponyboy to his friend Johnny. In a subsequent scene Johnny quotes the poem back to Ponyboy through a letter right after he dies.
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