Wikipedia:WikiProject Poetry

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Welcome to WikiProject poetry. To start exploring poetry on Wikipedia, visit the main poetry page. For information on creating poetry-related articles, please read on.

Contents 1 Scope 2 Participants 3 Structure 3.1 General Points 3.2 National Poetries 3.2.1 Examples 3.3 Poetry Groups or Movements 3.3.1 Example 3.4 Individual Poets 3.4.1 Examples 3.5 Styles/Forms/Techniques/Lists/General 3.5.1 Examples 3.6 Poetry Prizes 4 Style 4.1 Scansion 5 Current activities 5.1 The Mythological Writings of William Blake 5.2 Improvements and Clean-ups Under Way 5.3 To do

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to document information on national poetries, poetry movements and groups and individual poets and on poetic forms, styles and techniques.

See also:WikiProject Novels and WikiProject Songs.

Participants

• Filiocht | Blarneyman
• Daniel C. Boyer
• Jwrosenzweig
• Smerdis of Tlön
• Greenmountainboy
• Kdammers
• user:sjc
• Wikipedius
• WayneRay
• Stumps
• Poetlister
• BananagirlMy Desk

Structure

General Points

Please consider adding the following template at the top of article Talk pages.

{{WPPoetry}}

National Poetries

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.

Examples

• Irish poetry
• British poetry
• Poetry of the United States

Poetry Groups or Movements

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.

Example

• Imagism

Individual Poets

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.

Examples

• H.D.
• W. B. Yeats

Styles/Forms/Techniques/Lists/General

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.

Examples

• Poetry
• Alliterative verse
• List of poets
• List of cultural references in The Cantos

Poetry Prizes

• Forward Poetry Prize

Style

Scansion

Different systems of scansion are being documented in the article Systems of Scansion. The recommended style for marking scansion in Wikipedia articles in 'Ictus and x', that is with the symbols / for a stresed (accented) syllable, and x for an unstressed (unaccented) syllable. The advantages of this style is that the symbols are easily typed, cause no display problems in different browsers, and allow the older 'Macron and Breve' notation to still be used in referring to the quantity (length) of syllables, if so desired.

To ensure correct alignment of stress marks with syllables, the use of a table is recommended. Here is an example:

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/

x

/

x

/

x

/

x

/

To

swell

|

the

gourd,

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and

plump

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the

ha-

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zel

shells

Examle article:

• iambic pentameter

Current activities

The Mythological Writings of William Blake

See Category: William Blake's mythology; an article for each character; where disambiguation is required add ' (Blake)' to the name.

Examples:

• Orc (Blake)
• Urizen

Improvements and Clean-ups Under Way

• Jacopone da Todi
• Poetry: Evan Donovan posted a comment on 1 March 2006 on Talk:Poetry saying that he's going to start cleaning up the article ... maybe we should help.
• New Formalism is currently under review by the Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce
• L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets was tagged with context problems on 28 February 2006.
• Confessional poet was tagged with cleanup on 3 March 2006.

To do

• All those red links on the various List of poets lists
• Copy edit all the blue links off poetry
• Add more poets/movements/groups/forms/etc to the relevant lists