There I Go Diggin in Again
"Antigonish" is an 1899 poem by the American educator and poet, William Hughes Mearns. It is also known as "The Little Human being Who Wasn't At that place" and was adapted every bit a hit vocal under the latter championship.
Poem [edit]
Inspired by reports of a ghost of a man roaming the stairs of a haunted house, in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada,[1] the poem was originally function of a play called The Psyco-ed, which Mearns had written for an English class at Harvard University, circa 1899.[2] In 1910, Mearns staged the play with the Plays and Players, an amateur theatrical grouping, and on March 27, 1922, the newspaper columnist FPA printed the poem in "The Conning Tower", his column in the New York Globe.[2] [3] Mearns subsequently wrote many parodies of this poem, giving them the general title of Later Antigonishes.[4]
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a human being who wasn't there!
He wasn't there again today,
Oh how I wish he'd go away![five]When I came dwelling house last night at three
The man was waiting in that location for me
But when I looked effectually the hall,
I couldn't meet him there at all!
Go abroad, go away, don't yous come dorsum any more!
Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door...Last nighttime I saw upon the stair,
A little man who wasn't there,
He wasn't at that place again today
Oh, how I wish he'd go away....
Apply in media [edit]
- Father Brown, Season ix, Episode 9, "The Enigma of Antigonish", the villain uses the verse form as the idea behind a plot mechanism whereby a, suspect being already dead, wouldn't be sought for the murders of several witnesses that had given evidence that resulted in the villain's by incarceration for another crime.
- Horror fiction podcast The Magnus Archives focuses its 85th episode "Upon the Stair" on a paranormal entity inspired past the poem. The poem is mentioned and read aloud in the episode.
- In the miniseries Gallipoli, Flavour i, Episode i, General, Sir Ian Hamilton recites the poem.
- In the Television set show Death in Paradise, Flavor four, Episode 1 "Stab In The Night", Detective Inspector Humphrey Goodman references the poem while solving the murder of a distiller.
- In the TV testify Fear the Walking Dead, Season 3, Episode 6 "Burning in H2o, Drowning in Flame (Fear the Walking Dead)", Madison Clark and other Bankrupt Jaw Ranch dwellers observe a conscious homo with his brain exposed, reciting the poem out loud.
- In the TV bear witness Midsomer Murders, Season 5, Episode five "Worm in the Bud", Main Detective Inspector Barnaby quotes the first stanza of the verse form when mentioning the instance he was working on made no sense.
- In the TV show Sapphire & Steel, Season two, Episode 10 The offset stanza of the poem is heard three times in a ghost story about children trapped in photographs by a human being (spirit) with no face.
- In the Television receiver prove McDonald and Dodds, Flavour two, Episode one The first stanza of the verse form is spoken past ii members of the Bath constabulary during the investigation of a man who evidently plummeted to his death, falling from a hot-air balloon.
- In The Trial of Christine Keeler, based on the chain of events surrounding the Profumo matter in the 1960s, Dr. Stephen Ward - played past James Norton - recites the poem several times.
- The pic Identity opens with convict Malcom Rivers reciting the verse form, claiming to accept made it up when he was a kid. It'southward also the closing phrase in the film.
- In the movie "The Haunting in Connecticut", Matt Campbell recites the poem to his cousin.
- The poem is used in Stan Dane'due south volume Prayer Homo: The Exoneration of Lee Harvey Oswald to insinuate to enquiry that appears to points to suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald as being the "prayer human", a effigy standing on the front end steps of the Texas School Book Depository during the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy.[6]
Song [edit]
- In 1939, "Antigonish" was adapted as a popular vocal titled "The Little Human being Who Wasn't There", by Harold Adamson with music by Bernie Hanighen, both of whom received the songwriting credits.[3]
- A July 12, 1939 recording of the song by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, with vocals by Tex Beneke, became an 11-week striking on Your Striking Parade and reached #seven.
Other versions were recorded by:
- Mildred Bailey & Her Orchestra
- Larry Clinton & His Orchestra with vocals by Ford Leary
- Bob Crosby & His Orchestra with vocals past Teddy Grace
- Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra with vocals by Teagarden
- In 2022 The Odd Chap released an Electro Swing version using soundtrack from the Glenn Miller Band recording.
- In 2018, the experimental industrial group The Reptile Skins released an EP entitled Antigonish with the ii lead singers having a different estimation of the poem.
- The opening verse is featured on the opening track "Ytterligare ett steg närmare total jävla utfrysning" off the album Halmstad by Swedish band Shining
Run across too [edit]
- Extensional and intensional definitions
- Plato's beard
- The Man Who Sold the Earth (song), a vocal by David Bowie
References [edit]
- ^ Colombo, John Robert (1984). Canadian Literary Landmarks. Dundurn Printing. ISBN978-0-88882-073-0.
- ^ a b McCord, David Thompson Watson (1955). What Cheer: An Anthology of American and British Humorous and Witty Poetry. New York: The Modern Library. p. 429.
- ^ a b Kahn, Eastward. J. (September 30, 1939). "Artistic Mearns". The New Yorker. p. xi.
- ^ Colombo (2000), p.47.
- ^ Mearns, quoted past Hayakawa, Samuel Ichiyé & Hayakawa, Alan R. (1990). Language in Thought and Action. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 96. ISBN9780156482400.
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- Mearns, quoted by Colombo, John Robert (2000). Ghost Stories of Canada. Dundurn. p. 46. ISBN9781550029758. . Italics and assertion points.
- Mearns, quoted past Gardner, Martin (2012). Best Remembered Poems. Courier. p. 107. ISBN9780486116402. - ^ Dane, Stan. Prayer Man: The Exoneration of Lee Harvey Oswald (Martian Publishing, 2015), p. 190. ISBN 1944205012
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigonish_(poem)
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