find two similes from the poem "flannan isle"
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might ail The keepers of the deep-sea light.[3] — Stanzas 1-2 The remaining stanzas record the increasing tension of the relief party as they search the lighthouse and island, finding no sign of life but three strange birds that plunge from sight. At the ending, conscious of Flannan Isle's history of unexplained tragedies: We seem'd to stand for an
endless while, Though still no word was said, Three men alive on Flannan Isle, Who thought on three men dead." — Stanza 13 In popular culture The poem Flannan Isle is quoted by Tom Baker as the Doctor at the end of the Doctor Who story Horror of Fang Rock, which was set on a lighthouse and involved an alien explanation for the tragedy that
befell the three keepers there and survivors of a shipwreck. For the 1994 album Chansons des mers froides (Songs from the Cold Seas), French producer Hector Zazou adapted an extract of the poem Flannan Isle as a song entitled The Lighthouse. Lead vocals were performed by Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees, and backing vocals were
provided by a female Nanai shaman. The Genesis song The Mystery of Flannan Isle Lighthouse (on Archive 1967-75) is based on the incident as is the opera The Lighthouse by Peter Maxwell Davies. The novel Some Strange Scent of Death by Angela J. Elliott takes its name from a line in the poem and tells of the disappearance of the lighthouse
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