<Li> In the Beatles song "I Am the Walrus", the walrus refers to the walrus in the book . John Lennon later expressed dismay upon belatedly realising that the walrus was a villain in the poem . </Li> <Li> In the play Journey's End by R.C. Sheriff, the character Osborne quotes the poem to Raleigh before going to the trenches . </Li> <Li> Harriet the Spy, a 1996 adaptation of the Louise Fitzhugh novel, shows lead character Harriet and her nanny (played by Rosie O'Donnell) reciting alternating lines of the poem to each other on multiple occasions . </Li> <Li> A line from the poem was used as the title of the book Why The Sea Is Boiling Hot: A Symposium On The Church And The World (Ryerson Press, 1965). It was a collection of essays by a group of leading literary and political writers concerning the place of the church in 1960s Canadian society, commissioned by the then - Board of Evangelism and Social Service of the United Church of Canada . </Li>

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