The notorious Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker (a.k.a. “Bonnie and Clyde”) stayed at The Stockyards Hotel in 1933, per Texas Highways. Now, you can stay in the room they occupied, which currently goes by the Bonnie and Clyde Junior Suite and features memorabilia about the duo, including a poem Bonnie wrote Clyde.
100 Mind-Blowing Poem Facts
Michelangelo wrote a poem about how much he hated painting the Sistine Chapel. One translation of the poem he sent to his friend begins: I’ve already grown a goitre from this torture, hunched up here like a cat in Lombardy (or anywhere else where the stagnant water’s poison). Doesn’t sound like he was too thrilled with his task.
Someone will write and recite a poem at your funeral if you die in the Netherlands. This is mostly the case for those who die without a next of kin. This practice is done so that there will be at least one person at their funeral.
‘Metrophobia’ is the fear of poetry. If you don’t remember your literature classes as a good time, you may have had this phobia. The prefix metro- comes from the meter, which refers to the standard structure of a poem.
Frederick Douglass’s birth name was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. When he married he chose the last name Douglass after the hero clan in Sir Walter Scott’s famous poem, Lady of the Lake.