Filmmakers who want to appeal to the masses are forced to turn to the very canon of great literature that academics deplore as elitist. In Four Weddings and a Funeral, it was W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues” (Stop all the clocks) that had the audience in tears. Even in a film as dumbed-down as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, our hero blithely quotes T.S. Eliot and Milton. Indeed, Eliot’s poetry pops up in a dizzying range of popular films, from Logan’s Run to Apocalypse Now. What million-dollar motion picture would benefit from a line or two from smirky Carol Ann Duffy? Skyfall’s global success tells us that the movies are still big. It’s the poems that got small.