Bridges in art
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A bridge can play many roles in art, such as a work of art in itself in addition to any functional considerations; as a focal point for a novel or film; as a metaphor in song or poetry; as the subject of a painting or photograph; or as a home for other works of art, such as sculptures.
- The nursery rhyme "London Bridge is falling down"
- William McGonagall's 1880 poem on "The Tay Bridge Disaster"
- Wordsworth's famous sonnet "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802", opening with the famous lines, referring to the view from the bridge,
- Earth has not anything to show more fair:
- Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
- A sight so touching in its majesty.
- Julia A. Moore's poem on the Ashtabula Disaster:
- Have you heard of the dreadful fate
- Of Mr. P. P. Bliss and wife?
- Of their death I will relate,
- And also others lost their life;
- Ashtabula Bridge disaster,
- Where so many people died
- Without a thought that destruction
- Would plunge them 'neath the wheel of tide. (1879)
- Have you heard of the dreadful fate
Motion pictures
- Bridge (1922)
- The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929, 1944, 2004)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Die Brücke ("German – The Bridge", 1959)
- Un pont entre deux rives (The Bridge) (1999)
- A Bridge Too Far (1977)
- The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
Songs
- The 1970 Simon and Garfunkel song (using the term metaphorically), "Bridge Over Troubled Water".
- The 1967 song "Ode to Billie Joe", which became a hit for Bobbie Gentry
- The Divine Comedy's "Painting the Forth Bridge", the title being a colloquial term for an unending task, a reference to the Forth Bridge
- The Pogues' "Misty Morning, Albert Bridge": Albert Bridge is a bridge across the Thames river
- MC Frontalot's song "Floating Bridge" is literally about different types of bridges.
- Andy Partridge (of XTC) and Harold Budd – "Tenochtitlan's Numberless Bridges": Tenochtitlan was an Aztec island city with many waterways, canals, and bridges
- Harpers Bizarre – "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)": The bridge of the title, also known as the Queensboro Bridge, links Manhattan with Queens
- T'Pau – "Bridge of Spies": The title refers to Glienicke Bridge in Germany, called the Bridge of Spies because three times during the Cold War, released agents were exchanged there.
Other works
- Iain Banks' 1986 novel The Bridge
- Ernest Hemingway's 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, concerning the destruction of a bridge by guerrillas during the Spanish Civil War
- Bridges TV cable TV station seeking to "bridge" Middle East and West.
- In Chinese and other East Asian ivory carvings the arch of the tusk with the central portion upward suggests naturally a bridge, and often a bridge is a central cultural element when a large sculpture is formed from a single tusk.
