January Embers, Part II: The Big Lesson of a Little Poem in It: Chapter Two (2019)
The poem that returns to prominence in this horror sequel does more than merely serve the film's plot—it teaches us a powerful lesson about art.
Welcome to the third of four creepy Halloween posts featured at PopPoetry this month! If you missed Part I of this two-part post on the haiku at the heart of the 2017 remake of Stephen King’s It, check out January Embers, Part I here.
If you watched It (2017) and It: Chapter Two (2019) back-to-back, you would be consuming just over five hours of Pennywise. Simply put, there is a lot to this franchise, which isn’t surprising considering that the novel the story is adapted from clocks in at an astonishing 1,138 pages: Stephen King devoted 445,134 words to his tale.
In On Writing, King offers the following wisdom:
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