User talk:Mrathel

Urn

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Are you trying to update the page? Is there anything in particular that you feel it needs? I don't think that a generic urn image is helpful, especially when the turn isn't based on an actual real urn. Ottava Rima (talk) 19:37, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Full excerpts of poems are not produced like that on pages. It is not encyclopedic and they are transcribed over to wikisource. This one has already had that happened. Why are you putting it back in? Ottava Rima (talk) 21:55, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

I'll add in background information shortly, then I will dump quotes onto the talk page about themes and the rest. Ottava Rima (talk) 17:33, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

I moved the image to the right for formatting problems and desized it. However, the size is okay (probably not that big, as it takes up half of my screen, but if it will be larger, perhaps move it to the poem section so it doesn't override the section headings. Ottava Rima (talk) 02:49, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps you could do me a huge favor and fix the same problem on Ode on Indolence. Style and format are still things I am picking up as I go along Mrathel (talk) 05:04, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

I did what I could. Also, you should try to fix your expansions around a one day period (write things in microsoft word or something similar) so you could put it up for DYK. Getting an article displayed on the mainpage would attract people to help with copyediting and the rest. Thats why I am working on my Keats stuff in user space. Ottava Rima (talk) 16:50, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I will do that. I have about 15 books or so checked out on Keats, and I am going to finish with the Urn and Indolence article sometime next week. I will do the Nightengale all at once in Word, then put it up for DYK Mrathel (talk) 17:05, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Drop me a line when you work on a page. I have about 40 or so on Keats, and a few dozen more on English Romanticism in general. I'll put together notes for you to use. Ottava Rima (talk) 18:33, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

From Gittings p. 311: "The four poems he now wrote in the next few weeks frame the most coherent block of verse that Keats achieved, and they are rightly the most widely known of his works. They are bound together by a unity of form and theme. All four are written in ten-line stanzas, whose scheme, with small variations, is identical: a Shakespearian quatrain, followed by a Miltonic sestet." (Indolence, Melancholy, Nightingale and Urn). Ottava Rima (talk) 18:09, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Haha, definitely. : ) Ottava Rima (talk) 15:35, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Gram problems with titles

I tend not to think too hard about titles and if they are in quotes or italicized, because its completely arbitrary (unless its a really long work, then it must be italicized). I tend to look at an index and see how they describe it. Keats's odes tend to be italicized because of their relative importance in literary tradition. No more, no less. Its an honor thing, if that makes sense? Ottava Rima (talk) 19:56, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

C-class

Yeah, it's fixed. Wrad (talk) 20:40, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Haiku in English

Thanks for the note. I agree with you generally. I have a limited amount of time, especially in the coming weeks, to devote here but will help in any way possible.--Yumegusa (talk) 16:49, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

You'd be surprised at how rarely people catch the reference

Well, I'm 6 feet, 200 lbs.--so I guess that means no on both "stately" and "plump"--but it's always nice when somebody recognizes the character's name, Mrathel. I think you might be the second or third person in about three years. Buck Mulligan (talk) 17:18, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Herman Wildenvey

You reassessed this article which I had initially placed as High-importance. This is one of the most celebrated Norwegian poets. I'm no poetry afficionado but I'd say he's in the "top 10" among Notegian poets. Perhaps «Mid» importance? I'm leaving any reassessment up to you (or others). __meco (talk) 10:37, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Factrix

Two albums on Subterranean Records is enough for notability under the music guidelines, isn't it? Twiin (talk) 16:28, 18 December 2008 (UTC)