References at the End of the Chapters

[Aero]

Now, at the end of every chapter there is a small excerpt from another piece of work that ties in with chapter it's placed at the end of. The chapter titles also take their name from these excerpts.

Some of the examples off the top of my head include:

Chapter 1: "At Midnight, all the Agents" are some lyrics from Bob Dylan's song "Desolation Row."

Chapter 2: "Absent Friends" are also some lyrics, but by Elvis Costello

Chapter 5: "Fearful Symmetry" is from William Blake's poem "Tyger, Tyger."

I found the use of these things effective and intelligently placed. It's from a completely different piece of work, but it was placed in such a way that is would refer to what happens in the chapter (whether directly or indirectly) in short excerpts that made me interested in them as I was in the chapter.

[Valarak]

This is interesting! Maybe you could find references for every chapter and let us know about them? I'd be happy to make this a sticky thread if that's the case, it's useful information.

Valarak

[Mina Murray]

I agree I thought that was very very well done. One of the things I like about Watchmen is that there's all these little Easter Eggs that you discover almost everytime you re-read the graphic novel.
I also don't think it was a conicidence that it was Willam Blakes poem that they used, another tiny Easter Egg.
Or that Snyder used My Chemical Romances cover of Desolation Row for the end credits of the film.

[pax]

"At Midnight, All the Agents" was from Dylan's version? Last time I checked, that lyric was only in the My Chemical Romance version and not in Dylan's, although I might be making this up.

The most wonderful reference was, I thought, All Along the Watchtower (Unless I'm mistaken there's one there, while Dan and Rorschach were walking in the snow).