The trailer for the final season of Breaking Bad had Walter White (Bryan Cranston) reciting one of the versions to great effect and quite well sums up the big series storyline:
I was hoping someone would mention Breaking Bad. The third-to-last episode of the last season is called "Ozymandias" and it's probably the second-greatest episode of television ever filmed. The greatest is the very last episode "Felina."
You have to watch the whole series linearly though; if you skip to those episodes they won't mean anything.
The trailer was basically sequences from the desert (which is also where the series starts. Very, very well done show) while he talks.
I almost wonder if Gilligan started off with that poem and constructed a loose version of the story which grew into the layered thing that it is.
I remember wanting to be very disinterested in it due to the meth subject matter, but geez, the sub plots, the symbolism, all of it was just exceptionally well done.
You have to watch the whole series linearly though; if you skip to those episodes they won't mean anything.