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.

1 Scope
2 Participants
3 Structure
4 Style
- 4.1 Scansion
5 Current activities
6 Articles
7 Recognized content
8 Formerly recognized content
- 8.1 Former featured articles
- 8.2 Former good articles
9 Templates

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

Particpants 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
Poetlister
Sam
hmwith
Kyok o
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 Red 2 (AVE·CAESAR) 17:05, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
Ecoleetage

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:

x / x / x / x / x / To swell | the gourd, || and plump | the ha- | zel shells

Example article:

iambic pentameter

Current activities

Please nominate current activities on the talk page.

Articles

Poetry
articles Importance Top High Mid Low NoneTotal Quality FA3 8 7 1 19 GA2 2 7 10 21 B5 29 26 5 7 72 Start4 26 62 123 39 254 Stub2 19 173 87 281 List1 2 1 20 5 29 Assessed 15 69 122 332 138 676 Unassessed1 1 529 531 Total 15 70 122 333 667 1207

Recognized content

Featured articles

Alliterative verse • Anna Laetitia Barbauld • Cædmon • The Cantos • H.D. • Emily Dickinson • Rufus Wilmot Griswold • Imagism • Irish poetry • Rudyard Kipling • Modernist poetry in English • Objectivist poets • Edgar Allan Poe • Poetry • "The Raven" • William Shakespeare • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight • "Ulysses" (poem) • William Butler Yeats

Good articles

The Absent-Minded Beggar • W. H. Auden • Matsuo Bashō • Jorge Luis Borges • The Botanic Garden • Thomas Holley Chivers • Elizabeth F. Ellet • Eureka: A Prose Poem • Green Knight • Kigo • Joyce Kilmer • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Mahābhārata • Dorothy Parker • Harold Pinter • "In Praise of Limestone" • Patti Smith • Sonnet 18 • Walt Whitman • Nathaniel Parker Willis • Y Gododdin

Did You Know (DYK)s

Thomas Holley Chivers (August 18, 2007) • "Darkness" (August 19, 2007) • Eureka: A Prose Poem (November 18, 2007) • "In Praise of Limestone" (August 27, 2007) • Edward Coote Pinkney (May 26, 2008) • William Henry Leonard Poe (May 18, 2008)

Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

Poetry of the United States

Former good articles

Templates

What to type: What it makes: What it's for {{WPPoetry}}

Wikipedia:WikiProject Poetry is part of WikiProject Poetry, a WikiProject related to Poetry.

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