songs
Celine Dion-My Heart Will Go On
"one more you open the door
And you're here in my heart
And my heart will go on and on"
she alludes "the door" that Jack and Rose sank on.
The Fault in Our Stars-John Green
"The Fault in Our Stars."
The Title alludes Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar" Its a line in the play.
"To Kill a Mockingbird." by Harper Lee.
"Are we poor, Atticus?"
Atticus nodded, "We are indeed."
Jem's nose wrinkled, "Are we as poor as the Cunningham's?"
"Not exactly. The Cunningham's are country folk, farmers, and the crash him them the hardest."
This piece alludes to "The Crash," or the stock market crash of 1929 which led to the Great Depression.
"All overgrown by Cunning Moss." by Emily Dickinson.
"All overgrown by cunning moss,
All interspersed with weed,
The little cage of "Currer Bell"
In quiet "Haworth" laid."
"Currer Bell." is an allusion to Charlotte Bronte, who used the pen name "Currer Bell."
Kraft Mac’N’Cheese commercial with rapper Vanilla Ice
The ninja turtle shaped pasta.
This commercial alludes to the viewers that Vanilla Ice had a role in The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Taylor Swift-Love Story
"that you were Romeo, you were throwing
pebbles
and my daddy
said stay away from
Juliet."
She alludes Romeo and Juliet.
Clueless
the whole movie is an allusion to the novel "Emma," by Jane Austen.
Heart of Darkness. by Joseph Conrad.
"The two knitting women increase his anxiety by gazing at him and all the other sailors with unknown concern."
"The two knitting women." alludes to the Fates of Greek mythology, who spin, measure, and cut the threads of life.
"Nothing Gold can stay Golden." by Robert Frost.
"Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay."
The author makes an allusion to the Biblical Garden of Eden. "So Eden sank to grief,"
Miracle Whip Witch Hunt commercial
This is an allusion to the Salem Witch Trials during the 17th century.
One Direction-One Thing
"shot me out of the sky, your my kryptonite, you keep making me weak yea frozen and I can't speak."
They allude superman, "your my kryptonite."
Disney's "The Little Mermaid."
Ariel's father, Poseidon.
This alludes to the Greek God, Poseidon, the God of the sea, earthquakes, and horses.
Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury.
"He was eating a light supper at nine in the evening when the front door cried out in the hall and Mildred ran from the parlor like a native fleeing an eruption of Vesuvius."
This piece from the book alludes to the volcanic eruption in 79AD when Mount Vesuvius erupted and destroyed all of Pompeii and several other Roman cities and killed thousands. "Mildred ran from the parlor like a native fleeing an eruption of Vesuvius."
"The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot.
"April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain."
The opening of the poem alludes to Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tells." where it contrasts with the beginning of his poem which describes April as a cheery month, where Eliot's describes April as "the cruellest month."
2009 Diet Mountain Dew commercial.
Abraham Lincoln Wrestling.
This is an allusion to Abraham Lincoln.
Nicki Minaj-Your love
"I think I met him some time before in a different life, I mean he was Adam, and I think I was Eve but my vision ends with an apple on the tree.."
She alludes Adam and Eve, "I mean he was Adam and I think I was Eve.."
Disney's "The Lion King."
The movie alludes to Shakespeare's play "Hamlet."
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
" And this…this is your heart’s content—Illyria…Penguin Island…Gomorrah…. You think you’re going to be happy here in New Carthage, eh?"
"Penguin Island.." alludes to Anatole France's novel of the same name.
"Epistles to Several Persons." by Alexander Pope.
"Another age shall see the golden ear
Embrown the slope, and nod on the parterre,
Deep harvests bury all his pride has planned,
And laughing Ceres reassume the land.”
The author is making an allusion to the Greek Goddess of wheat and grain Demeter, by describing how this place will once again turn to earth for plough.
Wizard of Oz M'Ms commercial.
This is an allusion to the Wizard of Oz.
Aladdin-Arabian Nights
"When the winds from the east, and the suns from the west, and the sand in the glass is right, come on down, stop on by, hop a carpet and fly, to another Arabian Night."
He alludes to the Middle Eastern stories collection One thousand and One nights story and Sahara desert in the Middle East.
Disney's Pocahontas
The movie alludes to Shakespeare's play "The Tempest." Pocahontas and John Smith's love mirrors the love story portrayed in the play between Miranda and Ferdinand.
The Outsiders. by S.E. Hinton.
"Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold ..."The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died."
"Stay gold," alludes to Robert Frost's famous poem "Nothing Gold can stay Golden."
"Ode to Grecian Urn." by Keats.
"Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?”
He alludes Greek mythology when saying "In Tempe.." the Tempe is where the Greek Gods gathered.
80's peanut butter cups commercial.
This commercial references Noah's Ark.