If you venture off to the Poetry Foundation's website, you'll find an essay they commissioned me to write about King's poetry and his relationship to poetry.
King often has characters quoting poetry in his work. Even in The Outsider, where a cop says: "...but it’s like that poem says—I have promises to keep.”
King often has characters quoting poetry in his work. Even in The Outsider, where a cop says: "...but it’s like that poem says—I have promises to keep.”