What 2004 movie title is taken from the poem "Eloisa to Abelard" by Alexander Pope?

The 2004 movie title taken from Alexander Pope’s poem “Eloisa to Abelard” is Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.

The title comes from a famous couplet in Pope’s 1717 poem, which describes the peace enjoyed by a person whose mind is free from emotional turmoil. The phrase fits the film’s central idea: Joel Barish and Clementine Kruczynski undergo a procedure intended to erase their memories of one another after a painful breakup.

The film was directed by Michel Gondry and written by Charlie Kaufman, with a story developed alongside Pierre Bismuth. Jim Carrey plays Joel, while Kate Winslet plays Clementine. Although its premise involves speculative memory-erasure technology, the film is primarily a romantic drama about grief, repetition, choice, and whether painful memories are worth keeping.

A common mix-up is treating the title as an original phrase invented for the movie. It is actually a literary quotation adapted from Pope’s poem, whose full title refers to the tragic medieval lovers Héloïse and Peter Abelard.