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Categories | WikiProject Poetry articles, Poetry |
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Parent project(s) | Literature |
Project banner template | {{ WPPoetry}} |
Helps organise child projects? | No |
Has goals? | Yes |
Welcome to the Poetry WikiProject! To start exploring poetry on Wikipedia, visit the main poetry page. For information on creating poetry-related articles, please read on.
For poetry-related deletion discussions, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Poetry.
Scope and objectivesThe primary objective of WikiProject Poetry is to provide comprehensive, accurate, reliable information, and other resources on poetry, poets, and various subjects related to poetry. These topics include biographies of individual poets, works of poetry, national poetries, poetry movements and groups, poetic genres, forms, styles, and techniques. We accomplish this objective through the creation and improvement of articles, lists, and other resources that aim to provide Wikipedia's reader with well-written, adequately sourced historical information, analysis, and interpretation of topics relevant to poetry and the appreciation of poetry. Articles on these subjects should be categorized in the Category:Poetry or one of its subcategories, and the WikiProject banner placed on the article's talk page. Tasks
Please nominate current activities on the talk page. |
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Articles for deletion
Proposed deletions
Redirects for discussion
Requested moves
Articles to be merged
Articles for creation
This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot ( talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject Poetry articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options. |
Unfortunately, Wikipedia's Manual of Style and its Naming Conventions are often in conflict or inconsistent when it comes to the naming of articles on creative works. For more information about titling articles, see: Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Article titles, Wikipedia:Article titles, Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Titles of works, Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Composition titles.
{{
Quote}}
and {{
Quotation}}
templates, or the HTML element for blockquotes, which ought to be used with the element for poems within the blockquoted passage. See also the template {{
Poem}}
.
<blockquote><poem>
According to thy word.
They shall praise Thee and suffer in every generation
With glory and derision,
Light upon light, mounting the saints' stair.
Not for me the martyrdom, the ecstasy of thought and prayer,
Not for me the ultimate vision.</poem></blockquote>
What to type: | What it makes: | What it's for | ||||||||||
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{{ WPPoetry}} |
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The notice or template to indicate an article is part of the project. Place on talk pages. | ||||||||||
{{
Portal|Poetry}}
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Provides a link to the Poetry portal for easy subject navigation. To be placed at the top of "see also"/"related topics" sections only. | |||||||||||
{{ User WPPoetryMember}} |
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Userbox for members of the project, for display on user pages. | ||||||||||
{{ User:Scepia/poetry}} |
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Userbox for readers of poetry, not necessarily members of the project. | ||||||||||
{{ poetry-stub}} | The stub template for general poetry articles. | |||||||||||
{{ poem-stub}} | The stub template for articles on individual poems. | |||||||||||
{{ poet-stub}} | The stub template for articles on individual poets. |
Articles devoted to national poetries should be chronological in structure, beginning with the earliest known poetry from that country in question. The article should cover the principal periods and give brief information on the main poets, groups and movements in each period. Some attempt should be made to indicate factors that link and/or differentiate each period. Any important influences from other poetries should also be mentioned. Where possible, external links to online primary texts and/or critical or historical discussions should be appended at the end of the article. References and pictures are required to bring the article to featured status.
Some assistance may be available through WikiProject Historical Information.
Well-developed articles:
Other priorities:
Articles covering poetry groups or movements should cover the main members of the group, the stated aims or poetic and any important dates or key publications in the group's history. Other poets or groups/movements that the group being discussed were influenced by or reacting against should also be mentioned, as should the general cultural context. Where possible, external links to online primary texts and/or critical or historical discussions should be appended at the end of the article. References and pictures are required to bring the article to featured status.
Articles discussing individual poets should adhere to normal Wikipedia biography conventions. The poet's early influences, associations with any groups or movements, and main publications should be mentioned, along with any later poets, groups or movements they may have strongly influenced. Where possible, external links to online primary texts and/or critical or historical discussions should be appended at the end of the article. References and pictures are advised where the intention is to push the article to featured status.
If the poem in question is quite short, it should be added to the article, per WP:L&P. If it is a long poem, it should be linked, either from WikiSource, or from another website. The text of poems which are not copyrighted should in general be placed in WikiSource.
An article on an individual poem, besides the poem itself, should describe the publication history of the poem, and the critical response to the poem. Other matters that could be covered include: the circumstances in which the poem was written, the structure and style of the poem, and references made in the poem.
Include definitions, history including dates, notable poets associated and examples where appropriate. Lists should be annotated and illustrated where appropriate. Where there are red links on a list, please consider writing stubs or longer entries. References and pictures are required to bring the article to featured status.
Scansion is the act of analyzing and (usually) graphically representing the metrical character of a line of verse. Ideally Wikipedia will scan consistently across articles. Metrical verse is extremely diverse, especially across languages and over time, so universal consistency of scansion may not be possible or even desirable, but this advice will serve most English verse well, and may be useful for verse in other languages, too.
In a line of verse each syllable should be marked: ictic syllables with a slash "/", and nonictic syllables with an "x" — or preferably a multiplication sign "×". It is vital to distinguish between a metrical scansion (as is recommended here) and a rhythmic scansion (which, alone, leads to perdition). For notes on how to incorporate rhythmic notation into a valid metrical scansion, see Optional 2-line scansion below. The line of text is displayed, with a second line of scansion marks above it. Symbols are placed above the first vowel in each syllable. Both lines should begin with a space, so as to display them as monospaced characters; this allows easy WYSIWYG editing and keeps the verse text intact. The verse reference is placed on the same line as the text.
× / × / × / × / × / To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells [1]
This method of display is used in the article Scansion. For an alternate display method, see Alternate markup below.
The existence, function, and explanatory usefulness of feet in English verse is disputed. Also, while syntactic pauses frequently occur within a line, English verse seldom includes a metrically structural caesura. Therefore it is recommended that both these features remain unmarked unless the specific line requires them. Either can be marked within the text by a pipe "|" or, if they are both marked simultaneously, by a single pipe "|" for feet and two pipes "||" for caesura. Words should not be hyphenated when they are broken up by foot markers.
× / × / × / × / × / × / × / The princely palace of the sun | stood gorgeous to behold × / × / × / × / × / × / × / On state | ly pill | ars build | ed high || of yell | ow burn | ished gold [2]
As can be seen, a cost of including foot or caesura notation is the fragmentation of the verse text.
Both positionally extrametrical syllables and elided syllables can be indicated with parentheses.
× / ×(×) / × /(×) × / × / (×) His acts being seven ages. | At first the infant [3]
The line above contains all 3 types of extrametrical syllables commonly found in iambic pentameter: the first (×) is elided, the second (×) is allowed by a so-called "epic caesura" — a special case in which marking a caesura in iambic pentameter can be useful — and the third (×) is a feminine ending. These distinctions are not made explicit by the scansion, so in cases like this clarification may be required in the article text.
It is often (not always) conceded that certain meters (specifically the wide family of 4-ictic Ballad meters, including Fourteeners, Poulter's measure, and Limericks, among others) allow some line-final ictic positions to be experienced silently. Depending on the context, it may not be important to scan these, in which case one merely scans the syllables present in the text. But if these "virtual beats" require notation, they can be marked with "[/]" thus:
× / × / × / × / I taste a liquor never brewed, × / × / × / [/] From tankards scooped in pearl; × / × / × / × / Not all the vats upon the Rhine × / × / × / [/] Yield such an alcohol! [4]
Note the distinction between brackets here and parentheses above. This helps to emphasize how different the virtual beat is from the extrametrical syllable — the opposite, in fact. Extrametrical syllables are positions that exist in the text, but do not count in the meter; virtual beats are positions that exist in the meter, but not in the text.
( Derek Attridge (who coined the term "virtual beat") would also scan the lines above with "virtual offbeats" (e.g. "[× /]" at the end of lines 2 and 4). This is significant for his system, but is considered counterproductive for Wikipedia; especially since virtual beats frequently pop up in contexts in which one could imagine arguments over whether one was failing to hear 0, 1 or 2 virtual offbeats!)
If no verse text reference, or any other markup, is required on the same lines as the scansion and text, the scansion can be better integrated within the article text by using this markup:
<pre style="border:none;background-color:transparent;margin-left:1em">
</pre>
This method, too, allows WYSIWYG editing of the displayed lines. It is exemplified below, and is used in the article
Iambic Pentameter. Unfortunately, no method allowing both this appearance and markup (like <ref>
) is currently available.
Isn't one line enough? For metrical purposes, yes. But consider these lines:
Many people will find it hard to stomach that not only are these lines metrically identical, but that they are also completely regular:
× / × / × / × / × / When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, × / × / × / × / × / The line too labours, and the words move slow;
What of Pope's alleged sonic reproduction — through over-weighting the line with heavy syllables — of strain and toil? What of the reader's or listener's real experience of that strain? What is scansion good for, if it doesn't show this? Well, metrical scansion is not good for that. Its purpose is to analyze the meter of the line, and this is a binary proposition: all the syllables either function as a beat (ictus) or not (nonictus), and in verse like this (as indeed in most verse) the number of ictuses per line remains stable throughout the poem. There is no way metrically to notate the "extra stresses" that the reader legitimately experiences. These are an issue of verse rhythm. And while scanning only a verse's rhythm leads almost inevitably to a metrical boondoggle, scanning a verse's meter and rhythm can be very enlightening.
2 4 1 4 3 4 3 4 1 4 × / × / × / × / × / When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, 1 4 3 4 1 2 1 4 3 4 × / × / × / × / × / The line too labours, and the words move slow;
Here, we've added a rhythmic scansion (1 = lightest stress and 4 = heaviest stress). This closely mirrors the methods used by Otto Jespersen, James McAuley, and Timothy Steele; and serves as a useful informal approximation of the more linguistically technical scansions of Marina Tarlinskaja, Derek Attridge, and Peter L. Groves. Now we can see 1) the variety of stress interrelationships that create the distinctive stress profile of the lines, 2) how these variously stressed syllables realize ictic and nonictic positions within the iambic pentameter, and 3) how, despite the preponderance of heavy stresses, these lines relate structurally to Pope's other heroic lines.
Though relatively objective means can be used to determine fine-grained stress levels like these, they tend to be quite technical. For Wikipedia, these rhythmic scansions may best be left to the scanner's ear.
To join the WikiProject Poetry, edit this section and add #~~~~ and any comments to the end of the following list of members.
t
c
09:52, 17 August 2021 (UTC) Working on a template for scansion, interested in Imagism and eastern poetry as a readerYou may place {{
User WP Poetry}}
or {{
User WPPoetryMember}}
on your user page to display one of the following userboxes:
|
|
|
|
Either of these templates will add your user page to:
For other poetry user templates, please see:
This is a
WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
|
Shortcut | WP:POETRY |
---|---|
Categories | WikiProject Poetry articles, Poetry |
Portals |
Poetry Literature |
Parent project(s) | Literature |
Project banner template | {{ WPPoetry}} |
Helps organise child projects? | No |
Has goals? | Yes |
Welcome to the Poetry WikiProject! To start exploring poetry on Wikipedia, visit the main poetry page. For information on creating poetry-related articles, please read on.
For poetry-related deletion discussions, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Poetry.
Scope and objectivesThe primary objective of WikiProject Poetry is to provide comprehensive, accurate, reliable information, and other resources on poetry, poets, and various subjects related to poetry. These topics include biographies of individual poets, works of poetry, national poetries, poetry movements and groups, poetic genres, forms, styles, and techniques. We accomplish this objective through the creation and improvement of articles, lists, and other resources that aim to provide Wikipedia's reader with well-written, adequately sourced historical information, analysis, and interpretation of topics relevant to poetry and the appreciation of poetry. Articles on these subjects should be categorized in the Category:Poetry or one of its subcategories, and the WikiProject banner placed on the article's talk page. Tasks
Please nominate current activities on the talk page. |
|
Articles for deletion
Proposed deletions
Redirects for discussion
Requested moves
Articles to be merged
Articles for creation
This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot ( talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject Poetry articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options. |
Unfortunately, Wikipedia's Manual of Style and its Naming Conventions are often in conflict or inconsistent when it comes to the naming of articles on creative works. For more information about titling articles, see: Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Article titles, Wikipedia:Article titles, Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Titles of works, Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters#Composition titles.
{{
Quote}}
and {{
Quotation}}
templates, or the HTML element for blockquotes, which ought to be used with the element for poems within the blockquoted passage. See also the template {{
Poem}}
.
<blockquote><poem>
According to thy word.
They shall praise Thee and suffer in every generation
With glory and derision,
Light upon light, mounting the saints' stair.
Not for me the martyrdom, the ecstasy of thought and prayer,
Not for me the ultimate vision.</poem></blockquote>
What to type: | What it makes: | What it's for | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
{{ WPPoetry}} |
|
The notice or template to indicate an article is part of the project. Place on talk pages. | ||||||||||
{{
Portal|Poetry}}
|
Provides a link to the Poetry portal for easy subject navigation. To be placed at the top of "see also"/"related topics" sections only. | |||||||||||
{{ User WPPoetryMember}} |
|
Userbox for members of the project, for display on user pages. | ||||||||||
{{ User:Scepia/poetry}} |
|
Userbox for readers of poetry, not necessarily members of the project. | ||||||||||
{{ poetry-stub}} | The stub template for general poetry articles. | |||||||||||
{{ poem-stub}} | The stub template for articles on individual poems. | |||||||||||
{{ poet-stub}} | The stub template for articles on individual poets. |
Articles devoted to national poetries should be chronological in structure, beginning with the earliest known poetry from that country in question. The article should cover the principal periods and give brief information on the main poets, groups and movements in each period. Some attempt should be made to indicate factors that link and/or differentiate each period. Any important influences from other poetries should also be mentioned. Where possible, external links to online primary texts and/or critical or historical discussions should be appended at the end of the article. References and pictures are required to bring the article to featured status.
Some assistance may be available through WikiProject Historical Information.
Well-developed articles:
Other priorities:
Articles covering poetry groups or movements should cover the main members of the group, the stated aims or poetic and any important dates or key publications in the group's history. Other poets or groups/movements that the group being discussed were influenced by or reacting against should also be mentioned, as should the general cultural context. Where possible, external links to online primary texts and/or critical or historical discussions should be appended at the end of the article. References and pictures are required to bring the article to featured status.
Articles discussing individual poets should adhere to normal Wikipedia biography conventions. The poet's early influences, associations with any groups or movements, and main publications should be mentioned, along with any later poets, groups or movements they may have strongly influenced. Where possible, external links to online primary texts and/or critical or historical discussions should be appended at the end of the article. References and pictures are advised where the intention is to push the article to featured status.
If the poem in question is quite short, it should be added to the article, per WP:L&P. If it is a long poem, it should be linked, either from WikiSource, or from another website. The text of poems which are not copyrighted should in general be placed in WikiSource.
An article on an individual poem, besides the poem itself, should describe the publication history of the poem, and the critical response to the poem. Other matters that could be covered include: the circumstances in which the poem was written, the structure and style of the poem, and references made in the poem.
Include definitions, history including dates, notable poets associated and examples where appropriate. Lists should be annotated and illustrated where appropriate. Where there are red links on a list, please consider writing stubs or longer entries. References and pictures are required to bring the article to featured status.
Scansion is the act of analyzing and (usually) graphically representing the metrical character of a line of verse. Ideally Wikipedia will scan consistently across articles. Metrical verse is extremely diverse, especially across languages and over time, so universal consistency of scansion may not be possible or even desirable, but this advice will serve most English verse well, and may be useful for verse in other languages, too.
In a line of verse each syllable should be marked: ictic syllables with a slash "/", and nonictic syllables with an "x" — or preferably a multiplication sign "×". It is vital to distinguish between a metrical scansion (as is recommended here) and a rhythmic scansion (which, alone, leads to perdition). For notes on how to incorporate rhythmic notation into a valid metrical scansion, see Optional 2-line scansion below. The line of text is displayed, with a second line of scansion marks above it. Symbols are placed above the first vowel in each syllable. Both lines should begin with a space, so as to display them as monospaced characters; this allows easy WYSIWYG editing and keeps the verse text intact. The verse reference is placed on the same line as the text.
× / × / × / × / × / To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells [1]
This method of display is used in the article Scansion. For an alternate display method, see Alternate markup below.
The existence, function, and explanatory usefulness of feet in English verse is disputed. Also, while syntactic pauses frequently occur within a line, English verse seldom includes a metrically structural caesura. Therefore it is recommended that both these features remain unmarked unless the specific line requires them. Either can be marked within the text by a pipe "|" or, if they are both marked simultaneously, by a single pipe "|" for feet and two pipes "||" for caesura. Words should not be hyphenated when they are broken up by foot markers.
× / × / × / × / × / × / × / The princely palace of the sun | stood gorgeous to behold × / × / × / × / × / × / × / On state | ly pill | ars build | ed high || of yell | ow burn | ished gold [2]
As can be seen, a cost of including foot or caesura notation is the fragmentation of the verse text.
Both positionally extrametrical syllables and elided syllables can be indicated with parentheses.
× / ×(×) / × /(×) × / × / (×) His acts being seven ages. | At first the infant [3]
The line above contains all 3 types of extrametrical syllables commonly found in iambic pentameter: the first (×) is elided, the second (×) is allowed by a so-called "epic caesura" — a special case in which marking a caesura in iambic pentameter can be useful — and the third (×) is a feminine ending. These distinctions are not made explicit by the scansion, so in cases like this clarification may be required in the article text.
It is often (not always) conceded that certain meters (specifically the wide family of 4-ictic Ballad meters, including Fourteeners, Poulter's measure, and Limericks, among others) allow some line-final ictic positions to be experienced silently. Depending on the context, it may not be important to scan these, in which case one merely scans the syllables present in the text. But if these "virtual beats" require notation, they can be marked with "[/]" thus:
× / × / × / × / I taste a liquor never brewed, × / × / × / [/] From tankards scooped in pearl; × / × / × / × / Not all the vats upon the Rhine × / × / × / [/] Yield such an alcohol! [4]
Note the distinction between brackets here and parentheses above. This helps to emphasize how different the virtual beat is from the extrametrical syllable — the opposite, in fact. Extrametrical syllables are positions that exist in the text, but do not count in the meter; virtual beats are positions that exist in the meter, but not in the text.
( Derek Attridge (who coined the term "virtual beat") would also scan the lines above with "virtual offbeats" (e.g. "[× /]" at the end of lines 2 and 4). This is significant for his system, but is considered counterproductive for Wikipedia; especially since virtual beats frequently pop up in contexts in which one could imagine arguments over whether one was failing to hear 0, 1 or 2 virtual offbeats!)
If no verse text reference, or any other markup, is required on the same lines as the scansion and text, the scansion can be better integrated within the article text by using this markup:
<pre style="border:none;background-color:transparent;margin-left:1em">
</pre>
This method, too, allows WYSIWYG editing of the displayed lines. It is exemplified below, and is used in the article
Iambic Pentameter. Unfortunately, no method allowing both this appearance and markup (like <ref>
) is currently available.
Isn't one line enough? For metrical purposes, yes. But consider these lines:
Many people will find it hard to stomach that not only are these lines metrically identical, but that they are also completely regular:
× / × / × / × / × / When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, × / × / × / × / × / The line too labours, and the words move slow;
What of Pope's alleged sonic reproduction — through over-weighting the line with heavy syllables — of strain and toil? What of the reader's or listener's real experience of that strain? What is scansion good for, if it doesn't show this? Well, metrical scansion is not good for that. Its purpose is to analyze the meter of the line, and this is a binary proposition: all the syllables either function as a beat (ictus) or not (nonictus), and in verse like this (as indeed in most verse) the number of ictuses per line remains stable throughout the poem. There is no way metrically to notate the "extra stresses" that the reader legitimately experiences. These are an issue of verse rhythm. And while scanning only a verse's rhythm leads almost inevitably to a metrical boondoggle, scanning a verse's meter and rhythm can be very enlightening.
2 4 1 4 3 4 3 4 1 4 × / × / × / × / × / When Ajax strives, some rock's vast weight to throw, 1 4 3 4 1 2 1 4 3 4 × / × / × / × / × / The line too labours, and the words move slow;
Here, we've added a rhythmic scansion (1 = lightest stress and 4 = heaviest stress). This closely mirrors the methods used by Otto Jespersen, James McAuley, and Timothy Steele; and serves as a useful informal approximation of the more linguistically technical scansions of Marina Tarlinskaja, Derek Attridge, and Peter L. Groves. Now we can see 1) the variety of stress interrelationships that create the distinctive stress profile of the lines, 2) how these variously stressed syllables realize ictic and nonictic positions within the iambic pentameter, and 3) how, despite the preponderance of heavy stresses, these lines relate structurally to Pope's other heroic lines.
Though relatively objective means can be used to determine fine-grained stress levels like these, they tend to be quite technical. For Wikipedia, these rhythmic scansions may best be left to the scanner's ear.
To join the WikiProject Poetry, edit this section and add #~~~~ and any comments to the end of the following list of members.
t
c
09:52, 17 August 2021 (UTC) Working on a template for scansion, interested in Imagism and eastern poetry as a readerYou may place {{
User WP Poetry}}
or {{
User WPPoetryMember}}
on your user page to display one of the following userboxes:
|
|
|
|
Either of these templates will add your user page to:
For other poetry user templates, please see: