The poem is recited on live broadcast at the funeral of Michael Hutchence, the founding member and lead singer of rock band INXS, by his sister Tina Hutchence on 27 November 1997 BBC poll Used by a character in "Tell me your secrets" season 1 The poem is recited at the funeral of Sir Freddy Butler (played by Joss Ackland) by Lady Annabel Butler (played by Siân Phillips) in the Episode 3 of Season 9 of Midsomer Murders ("Vixen's Run").
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The poem is sung in Season 5 Episode 2 of the NBC TV series Third Watch. The poem is read by Lisa (played by Kerry Godliman), the dying wife of lead character Tony (played by Ricky Gervais) in the final episode of the Netflix series After Life. The last four lines of the poem were recited among others in Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. The poem was adapted for use in the video game World of Warcraft. This poem was adapted as the lyrics in the song "Prayer" by Lizzie West. This poem is recited in “ Welcome to Kanagawa”, a season four episode of Desperate Housewives. The first and last couplets are adapted and used as part of the lyrics in the song "Another Time" by Lyriel. This poem is also used as the lyrics in the song "Still Alive" by D.E.Q. It is also reproduced on the gravestone of the actor Charles Bronson. Reference to the wind and snow and the general theme of the poem, the absence of the departed, particularly resonate with the loved ones of those who "disappeared" in the mountain range to whom the memorial is dedicated. The poem's first four lines are engraved on one of the stones of the Everest Memorial, Chukpi Lhara, in Dhugla Valley, near Everest.
The soldier's father read the poem on BBC radio in 1995 in remembrance of his son, who had left the poem among his personal effects in an envelope addressed 'To all my loved ones'. : 426 A common reading at funerals and remembrance ceremonies, the poem was introduced to many in the United Kingdom when it was read by the father of a soldier killed by a bomb in Northern Ireland. After hearing John Wayne's reading, script writer John Carpenter featured the poem in the 1979 television film Better Late Than Never. John Wayne read the poem "from an unspecified source" on Decemat the memorial service for film director Howard Hawks. Each line is in iambic tetrameter, except for lines five and seven, the fifth having an extra syllable, the seventh, two extra. The poem is twelve lines long, rhyming in couplets. : 427–8 Original version īelow is the version published in The Gypsy of December 1934 (page 16), under the title "Immortality" and followed by the author's name and location: "CLARE HARNER, Topeka, Kan." : 424 The indentation and line breaks are as given there. However, Pauline Phillips and her daughter Jeanne Phillips, writing as Abigail van Buren, repeatedly confessed to their readers that they could not confirm who had written the popular poem. In her obituary, she asserted that her authorship was "undisputed" and confirmed by Dear Abby. She was first wrongly cited as the author of the poem in 1983. : 423 The most notable claimant was Mary Elizabeth Frye (1905–2004), who often handed out xeroxed copies of the poem with her name attached. The poem is often attributed to anonymous or incorrect sources, such as the Hopi and Navajo tribes. They moved to San Francisco where she continued to work as a journalist for Fairchild Fashion Media. She married a Marine named David Lyon, and appended his last name to hers.
Several of her other poems were published and anthologized. Harner earned a degree in journalism at Kansas State University. It was soon reprinted in the Kansas City Times and the Kansas City Bar Bulletin. Harner's poem quickly gained traction as a eulogy and was read at funerals in Kansas and Missouri. It was written shortly after the sudden death of her brother. Kansas native Clare Harner (1909–1977) first published "Immortality" in the December 1934 issue of poetry magazine The Gypsy. Often now used is a slight variant: "Do not stand at my grave and weep". " Do not stand by my grave and weep" is the first line and popular title of the bereavement poem " Immortality", written by Clare Harner in 1934. The poem on a gravestone at St Peter’s church, Wapley, England
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