Poetry in Movies and Television: "Solace"

A fragment of the Echo poem was used in the 2015 movie "Solace" where it was recited by Sir Anthony Hopkins and Colin Farrell.
"The Leaden Echo" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
How to keep-is there ány any, is there none such, nowhere
known some, bow or brooch or braid or brace, láce, latch or catch or key to keep
Back beauty, keep it, beauty, beauty, beauty, . . . from vanishing away?
Ó is there no frowning of these wrinkles, rankèd wrinkles deep,
Dówn? no waving off of these most mournful messengers, still messengers, sad and stealing messengers of grey?
No there’s none, there’s none, O no there’s none,
Nor can you long be, what you now are, called fair,
Do what you may do, what, do what you may,
And wisdom is early to despair:
Be beginning; since, no, nothing can be done
To keep at bay
Age and age’s evils, hoar hair,
Ruck and wrinkle, drooping, dying, death’s worst, winding sheets, tombs and worms and tumbling to decay;
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Sir Alec Guinness reads the full poem here: • The Leaden Echo and Th...
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Thanks to this movie, I was introduced to this poem. I will always be grateful

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Hopkins' citating Hopkins😃

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