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Shortcut: WP:POETRY

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.

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to document information on national poetries, individual poets, poetry movements and groups and individual poets and on poetic forms, styles and techniques, and poetries example. All of these articles should be contained in the Category:Poetry or one of its subcategories.

Participants

Participants are welcome to add the WikiProject userbox to their talkpages. Simply add {{WPPoetryMember}}. It is recommended that participants add this project page to their watch list.

Daniel C. Boyer
Smerdis of Tlön
Kdammers
user:sjc
Wikipedius
WayneRay
Stumps
Sam
hmwith
Midnightdreary
Moonbug
John Carter
Wrad
*Rianon Burnet
William P. Coleman (talk) Modernism, Classical Chinese Poetry, Classical Greek Poetry
User:Thehumuslayer
User:ImperviusXR
--Survivalism (talk) 16:04, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Kalindoscopy
Zorba the Geek (talk) Russian poetry, especially Russian modernisms
Vergency
Erik the 2 (·) 17:05, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Ecoleetage
Albeiror24-Neopanida: Spanish literature and poetry.
Halcatalyst: English Romantics and Modern British and American poetry
--Evb-wiki (talk) 13:57, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
Smileypirate (talk) 15:06, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Structure

Templates

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.

Some assistance may be available through WikiProject Historical Information.

Examples

Well-developed articles:

Other priorities:

Indian poetry

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

Individual poems

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.

Examples

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 Prizes

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 stressed (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:

swell

the

gourd,

and

plump

the

ha-

zel

shells

Example article:

iambic pentameter

Current activities

Poetry assessment drive: Please visit Category:Unassessed Poetry articles and assess as either Stub, Start, C, or B class and add importance of low, mid, or high.
Ongoing activity: Add the WP:Poetry template to the talk pages of articles related to poets, poems, and poetry collections to affiliate them with this project.

Please nominate current activities on the talk page.

Articles

Poetry articles		Importance
Poetry articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	5	5	8	4		22
	GA	2	3	9	11	1	26
	B	8	33	57	13	5	116
	Start	3	41	209	424	46	723
	Stub		2	82	588	102	774
	List	1	2	4	23	5	35
	Assessed	19	86	369	1063	159	1696
	Unassessed	2	3	5	6	26	42
	Total	21	89	374	1069	185	1738

Recognized content

Featured articles

Anna Laetitia Barbauld • Samuel Beckett • Cædmon • Stephen Crane • H.D. • Emily Dickinson • Rufus Wilmot Griswold • Imagism • James Joyce • Rudyard Kipling • James Russell Lowell • Modernist poetry in English • Philitas of Cos • Edgar Allan Poe • Poetry • Proserpine • "The Raven" • William Shakespeare • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight • "Ulysses" • Nathaniel Parker Willis • William Butler Yeats

Good articles

The Absent-Minded Beggar • Agrippa (a book of the dead) • W. H. Auden • Matsuo Bashō • Jorge Luis Borges • The Botanic Garden • Lev Chernyi • Thomas Holley Chivers • Elizabeth F. Ellet • Eureka: A Prose Poem • Green Knight • Kigo • Joyce Kilmer • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Mahābhārata • Midas • "Mounseer Nongtongpaw" • Dorothy Parker • Harold Pinter • William Henry Leonard Poe • "In Praise of Limestone" • Patti Smith • Sonnet 18 • Tristan Tzara • Jones Very • Walt Whitman • Y Gododdin

Did You Know (DYK)s

Arthur Brooke (September 28, 2006) • Nuyorican Poets Café (January 17, 2007) • The Unsex'd Females (March 11, 2007) • Lucretia Maria Davidson (May 27, 2007) • Nazik Al-Malaika (June 25, 2007) • Thomas Holley Chivers (August 18, 2007) • "Darkness" (August 19, 2007) • "In Praise of Limestone" (August 27, 2007) • "The Lady of the Lake" (October 1, 2007) • Elizabeth F. Ellet (October 19, 2007) • Eureka: A Prose Poem (November 18, 2007) • "A Description of a City Shower" (March 15, 2008) • William Henry Leonard Poe (May 18, 2008) • Edward Coote Pinkney (May 26, 2008) • Christopher Smart (June 13, 2008) • The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (June 16, 2008) • "The Village Blacksmith" (June 23, 2008) • George Pope Morris (July 12, 2008) • Epes Sargent (July 13, 2008) • The Vanity of Human Wishes (August 15, 2008) • Edwin Thumboo (August 20, 2008) • A Fable for Critics (August 21, 2008} • "The Maid of Orleans" (August 29, 2008) • Salut d'amor (September 3, 2008) • Dante da Maiano (September 8, 2008) • František Gellner (September 9, 2008) • David Wagoner (September 12, 2008) • Andrieu Contredit d'Arras(October 4, 2008) • "Hay and Hell and Booligal" (October 9, 2008) • John Audelay (October 13, 2008) • "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (October 15, 2008) • Songs of Fredman (October 19, 2008)

Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

Former good articles

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