The Yeats Poem Spielberg Liked So Much He Misquoted It Twice

Ireland's favorite son would likely have been delighted to know that his poem still speaks to human confrontations with things that are more than human.

David, played by Haley Joel Osment, and Teddy, voiced by the late Jack Angel, in A.I. Artifical Intelligence (2001)

A.I. Artificial Intelligence, the 2001 film collaboration between Stephen Spielberg and a posthumous Stanley Kubrick, is one of the weirdest big-budget, wide-release movies I’ve ever seen. The plot of this science fiction film centers on Da…