An Eton Poetry Book The section ends with Brooke's "The Soldier": "If I should die, think only this of me, That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England". The editors introduce this section by admitting that "the trochaic metre has not by itself played an important part in our literature ... Tennyson wrote 'Locksley Hall' in trochaics because Mr Hallam told him that the English people liked the metre, but it is very doubtful if he was right." There are fewer poems in this section by the best known names in English poetry, but Alington and Lyttelton include William
Is That All There Is? in Chris Petit's 1984 Berlin-based film, "Chinese Boxes". The John Parish and P.J. Harvey version appears on the soundtrack of the 1996 film "Basquiat". In the "Children of a Lesser Clod" episode of "The Simpsons", Homer sings a verse of the chorus when asked by Rod Flanders to "…sing that crazy song we love". This song was performed by Nathan Lane and Dianne Reeves in "I Love A Charade," season 5, episode 74 (2002) of the American television series "Sex and the City". Actress Hope Davis performs the song in the 2007 movie "The Nines". The song is frequently referenced