Not Waving but Drowning Not Drowning, Waving takes their name from the poem. The underground '90s emo-hardcore act I Hate Myself recorded a song with the same name on their album 10 Songs. A track on Julian Cope's 1991 album "Peggy Suicide" was titled "Not Raving but Drowning" after the poem. The poem was also set to music by singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt on his debut album Little with a spoken introduction from a Stevie Smith recording. Singer and songwriter Tanita Tikaram set the poem to music in her song titled "Not Waving but Drowning" which appeared as a b-side to her single "I Might
Drowning Girl "Drowning Girl", "Hopeless" and "In the Car". These works served as prelude to 1964 paintings of innocent "girls next door" in a variety of tenuous emotional states. "In "Hopeless" and "Drowning Girl", for example, the heroines appear as victims of unhappy love affairs, with one displaying helplessness ... and the other defiance (she would rather drown than ask for her lover's help)." "Drowning Girl", the aforementioned works and "Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But..." are among those tragedies that make the author a popular draw at museums. "Drowning Girl" is derived from the splash page from "Run for Love!", illustrated by