Wikipedia:WikiProject 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.

For poetry-related deletion discussions, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Poetry.

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.

See also:WikiProject Novels and WikiProject Songs.

Tasks

• Poetry assessment drive: Please visit Category:Unknown-importance Poetry articles and assess as either High, Mid, or Low importance.
• 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.

Improve the bird's eye view

The entire subject and Wikipedia's coverage of it is intended to be summarized in the Outline of poetry. It in turn is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's main contents systems.

Please look it over and fill-in missing topics. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.

While analyzing the outline, please answer the following questions (and fix the outline as needed):

1. What's missing?
2. Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject?
3. Does the outline help understand the relationships between the topics presented in the best way possible?

The overall purpose of the outline is to help readers comprehend the subject by showing what belongs to it, and within the subject what belongs to what.

The outline is a taxonomy of the subject, and also serves as a table of contents and navigation aid to browse Wikipedia's articles (and article sections) about the subject.

It is also a useful tool for the WikiProject to analyze, plan, develop, and revise poetry-related material. It is a hub from which to organize related topics.

It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of an existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.

Please help improve it.

It's our bird's eye view.

Thank you.

Develop articles

Poetry articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	5	5	14	5			29
FL				1			1
GA	2	7	23	28			60
B	6	50	97	50		5	208
C	8	37	82	103		21	251
Start	4	65	447	994		92	1,602
Stub		12	211	1,890		307	2,420
List		9	23	56		11	99
NA					1,062		1,062
Assessed	25	185	897	3,127	1,062	436	5,732
Unassessed			3	4		551	558
Total	25	185	900	3,131	1,062	987	6,290

Recognized content

Featured articles

Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Cædmon
Stephen Crane
H.D.
Emily Dickinson
Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Imagism
Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson's early life
James Joyce
James Russell Lowell
Philitas of Cos
Edgar Allan Poe
"Ode on Indolence"
Poetry
Proserpine
Du Fu

"The Raven"
William Shakespeare
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
John Millington Synge
"To Autumn"
"Ulysses"
Nathaniel Parker Willis
William Butler Yeats
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Good articles

The Absent-Minded Beggar
Agrippa (a book of the dead)
"Al Aaraaf"
W. H. Auden
Matsuo Bashō
Ann Eliza Bleecker
The Botanic Garden
"Burnt Norton"
Lev Chernyi
Thomas Holley Chivers
"The Dry Salvages"
"East Coker"
Elizabeth F. Ellet
Eureka: A Prose Poem

"I syng of a mayden"
Green Knight
Kigo
Joyce Kilmer
Philip Larkin
"Little Orphant Annie"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Midas
"Mounseer Nongtongpaw"
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
"Ode on Indolence"
"Ode to a Nightingale"
Dorothy Parker
Harold Pinter
William Henry Leonard Poe

"In Praise of Limestone"
James Whitcomb Riley
Luis Muñoz Rivera
Christopher Smart
Patti Smith
Sonnet 18
Tamerlane and Other Poems
Edwin Thumboo
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)
• "Tears, Idle Tears" (August 10, 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)
• Jubilate Agno (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)
• Anatol E. Baconsky (25 July 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)
• "Lucy Gray" (November 14, 2008)
• Matthew (poems) (November 14, 2008)
• Lucy (poems) (November 14, 2008)
• De vetula (December 24, 2008)
• John Keats's 1819 odes (January 8,2008)
• "Ode on Melancholy" (January 8, 2009)
• "Ode to a Nightingale" (January 8, 2009)
• "Ode to Psyche" (January 8, 2009)
• "To Autumn" (January 8, 2009)
• decasyllabic quatrain (March 10, 2009)
• The Poets and Poetry of America (April 11, 2009)
• Four Quartets (April 29,2009)
• Burnt Norton (Apriil 29,2009)
• East Coker (poem) (April 29,2009)
• The Dry Salvages (April 29,2009)
• Little Gidding (poem) (April 29,2009)
• Gerontion (May 2, 2009)
• Not Waving but Drowning (May 10, 2009)
• "A Supermarket in California" (May 11, 2009)
• "A Prayer for my Daughter" (May 13, 2009)
• "On being asked for a War Poem" (May 14,2009)
• "Politics (poem)" (May 16, 2009)
• "The Circus Animals' Desertion" (May 16, 2009)

Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

• Alliterative verse
• Samuel Beckett
• The Cantos
• Rudyard Kipling
• Objectivist poets
• Poetry of the United States

Former good articles

• Mahabharata

Templates

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}}	This user is a member of Wikiproject Poetry.	Userbox for members of the project, for display on user pages.
{{User:Scepia/poetry}}	This user enjoys reading 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.

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:

• Irish poetry
• Poetry of the United States

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

• William Shakespeare
• W. B. Yeats
• Emily Dickinson

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

• The Waste Land
• Mr Bleaney
• In Memoriam A.H.H.
• The Cantos (and List of cultural references in The Cantos)

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
• Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award
• Theodore Roethke Memorial 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 is 'Ictus and x', that is with the symbol "/" for a stressed (accented) syllable, and the symbol "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

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x

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swell

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the

gourd,

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and

plump

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shells

Example article:

• iambic pentameter

Participants

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

1. User:Sad Lil Artsy Guy
2. Tegalad
3. Anshul
4. User:Daniel C. BoyerDaniel C. Boyer
5. Smerdis of Tlön
6. Kdammers
7. user:sjc
8. Wikipedius
9. WayneRay
10. Stumps
11. Sam
12. hmwith
13. Kyoko
14. Midnightdreary
15. Moonbug
16. John Carter
17. Wrad
18. *Rianon Burnet
19. William P. Coleman (talk) Modernism, Classical Chinese Poetry, Classical Greek Poetry
20. User:Thehumuslayer
21. User:ImperviusXR
22. --Survivalism (talk) 16:04, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
23. Kalindoscopy
24. Zorba the Geek (talk) especially Russian poetry
25. Vergency
26. Erik the Red 2 (AVE·CAESAR) 17:05, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
27. Albeiror24-Neopanida: Spanish literature and poetry.
28. Halcatalyst: English Romantics and Modern British and American poetry
29. --Evb-wiki (talk) 13:57, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
30. Smileypirate (talk) 15:06, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
31. mrathel (talk)
32. Ottava Rima - English Civil War to Victorians.
33. User:Ericdn
34. User:TheGeniusPrince
35. Ida-Marie's Father - German and German-writing Poets
36. Easchiff - various contemporary poets (Kay Ryan, Timothy Murphy, Carl Dennis), some awards articles.
37. Lordknave
38. Junius49
39. Pohick
40. Spanglej Mostly US and UK poets
41. Aclayartist
42. Sir Richardson
43. BarbaraSta
44. -- Daniel Jones (talk) 11:26, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
45. MaximilianT
46. Szfski - Classical Arabic and Russian poetry.
47. Ink Falls -What Dcattell said ^_^
48. Dcattell Poetry that's lovely, good, and beautiful (and that I can understand).
49. BlackMarlin 20th Century Poetry, mainly British or from the North of Ireland. Currently writing a PhD thesis on Paul Muldoon.
50. Clevelander96 Middle English Poetry, Irish poets in English, Poetics
51. Josette
52. Amartya Ray
53. Londonjackbooks Works by and about Philadelphia poet Florence Earle Coates.
54. Brucewhealton (talk) 12:35, 10 July 2010 (UTC)Brucewhealton Interested in poetry online, poets, and poetry communities
55. Mikhailov Kusserow (talk · contribs)
56. Bertaut (talk · contribs)
57. Christian Roess
58. Sigauri
59. hazelnutmeg -- mostly Latin and Ancient Greek poetry, occasionally editing biographical entries on German, US, or UK poets.
60. JoannaSerah (talk) 05:01, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
61. BanWisco
62. INeverCry
63. User:Damoon4all
64. User:Weatherby551

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

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