Why is pushing daisies called that

Martinho Fernandes 3, 25 25 silver badges 36 36 bronze badges. Add a comment. The phrase "pushing up daisies" is often linked to Keats , who is attributed as saying: I shall soon be laid in the quiet grave -- thank God for the quiet grave -- O! Image originally from Flickr However, the link between daisies and death particularly innocent death is much older than that.

The Celtic poet Ossian wrote how unborn children would return to the ground as flowers: a woman named Malvina, who was mourning the death of her baby, was consoled by the Maidens of King Morven. It is certainly at least as old as World World I, when it was used in A Terre , a poem by Wilfred Owen about the physical loss suffered by a soldier entrapped within his deteriorating body this is only part of the poem : O Life, Life, let me breathe, - a dug-out rat!

Not worse than ours the existences rats lead - Nosing along at night down some safe vat, They find a shell-proof home before they rot. Dead men may envy living mites in cheese, Or good germs even. Microbes have their joys, And subdivide, and never come to death, Certainly flowers have the easiest time on earth.

Shelley would be stunned; The dullest Tommy hugs that fancy now. To grain, then, go my fat, to buds my sap, For all the usefulness there is in soap. D'you think the Boche will ever stew man-soup? Some day, no doubt, if Stormblessed 11k 7 7 gold badges 53 53 silver badges 94 94 bronze badges. Tony Meyer Tony Meyer And from Grim Fandango! We may have days, we may have hours; but sooner or later we all push up flowers. A wonderful answer. Thank you for your efforts Tony!

The Keats quote mentions daises, but it doesn't suggest the idea of pushing them up or otherwise. Schroedingers Cat Schroedingers Cat 7, 2 2 gold badges 27 27 silver badges 46 46 bronze badges. Monica Monica 1. You may want to read the full comments on the question.

I was responding to OghmaOsiris and PaperJam. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Jim Dale Narrator as Narrator. Sy Richardson Coroner as Coroner. Bryan Fuller. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Ned possesses the unique talent of being able to bring the dead to life merely by touching them. However, the person may remain alive only for one minute, or else someone else dies for them.

A second touch will render the person dead again, unable to be revived. The trio, aided occasionally by Olive Snook, helps solve the mysteries of various murders, whose murderer is often surprising. Comedy Drama Fantasy Mystery Romance. Did you know Edit. Trivia Based on a rejected plotline for Dead Like Me where Ellen Muth 's character couldn't collect any souls because somebody was resurrecting them with a touch. Goofs Throughout the series, the way Ned's gift works contradicts itself.

Most notably, his entire business is based around touching dead fruit to make it ripe again for use in his pies. When he touches the fruit, it is restored to its pristine physical shape. Quotes Emerson Cod : Well, that idea might make a stupid idea feel better about itself. User reviews Review. Top review. A great series After all, good television is like the sentiment 'no good deed goes unpunished'!

And, like a wonderful show, it manages to start off with a real bang--with an episode that keeps you wanting more. Apparently, the idea for "Pushing Daisies" was originally a plot idea for "Dead Like Me"--another show so good that it quickly failed. In the show, they had planned to have the reapers learn that some of their victims had mysteriously returned to life--the result of a guy with magical life-giving powers.

However, unlike "Dead Like Me" the atmosphere, costumes and set design had a much more other-worldly appearance--like it was filmed in a magical fictional land--full of LOTS of primary and secondary colors! Of course, just because we've seen the last of Pushing Daisies the television show doesn't mean that we've seen the last of Pushing Daisies altogether.

Fuller explained:. This wouldn't be Daisies first time as a comic - Before the show premiered, a preview comic was given away at 's San Diego Comic-Con; you can read it and perhaps catch a glimpse of the show's future here. Production wrapped this week on the show's thirteenth episode, which will end with a cliffhanger. Fuller didn't comment on whether this meant that he was heading back to Heroes anytime soon. In TV's defense, we are in a much better state than we were six years ago.