<Li> The Jack Warden character "Doc" in the John Wayne and Lee Marvin film Donovan's Reef, quotes part of the poem to his visiting daughter from Boston, who looks down her society nose at the lifestyles of the people who live on the island . </Li> <Li> In "The Clocks" by Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot quotes part of the poem to his visiting mentee, Colin Lamb, who is trying to find the importance of clocks found at a murder scene . </Li> <Li> The Lucy Maud Montgomery character "Anne" quotes the part of this poem when talking about things she might learn in college in the book Anne of the Island . </Li> <Li> In the Ultimate Muscle manga series the villanious wrestler and superman Neptuneman turns the good - natured Seiuchin (a walrus - themed hero and wrestler) evil by telling him the tale . The tale drives Seiuchin to embrace his own predatory nature and start displaying an egotistical streak . </Li>

What is the poem the walrus and the carpenter about