Abstract
This paper discusses the uses and abuses of poetry in two recent, popular films, one American “Dead Poets Society” and one British “Four Weddings and a Funeral”. I aim to show how poetry travels from the field of high culture and is recuperated from obscurity by being quoted in these feel-good dramas. Flowever, along the transtextual path something is also lost, and rather than simple quotation, what happens to the poems in question is something beyond allusion, or even plagiarism, pastiche, parody, or counterfeiting - namelywhat Guy Debord termed détournement.
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