Talk:Poetry/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

Is MacLeish's poem really ironic?

MacLeish's Ars Poetica, cited in the article, is described as being "ironic." However, I read it as a straightforward imagist poetic credo from a practitioner of modernist verse.

The definition section on this article is much improved from when it was a miscellaneous grab bag of quotes from various poets. I think it might actually be closer to a NPOV definition than the Britannica's. Evan Donovan 04:28, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

I just read the poem through a few times, and, well, yes, I find it ironic to write that a poem should be wordless, or to say (assuming we still read poetry out loud) a poem should be mute; and the general tone strikes me as ironic ... Of course, the problem is, when this kind of point is raised, we're supposed to find some authority on it and not just do our own reading. A quick google of ars poetica and irony or ironic mainly shows up with a bunch of term papers making a similar point - nothing worth relying on. Hmmm. May have to think of a good MacLeish scholar to peruse. Interesting point. I do see your point. Sam 04:54, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

I see your point, too. The claims of the poem are obviously not to be taken literally, but if they're ironic, they're ironic in the same sense that Auden's statement "Poetry makes nothing happen" is. Both are making a serious point, using paradoxical language. Perhaps "paradoxical" would be the best word. The general tone of MacLeish's poem reminds me of what Douglas Hofstadter says of Zen in Godel, Escher, Bach: the goal is to "break the mind of logic" by making statements that, on the surface, seem incomprehensible. Evan Donovan 18:28, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Barring input from other parties, paradoxical it is. Good change! Sam 19:05, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

external links

what is * CUE: A Journal of Prose Poetry, it seems to be adding no useful resources to this page?

I'll delete it. Sam 22:27, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

link removed.

Hi, I'm the publisher of MUGround poetry magazine, which has been in operation since the late 90s. I recently added a link and it was removed. Any reason? Anything I can do to get the link to stick? Thanks, kpaul

MUGround doesn't (to me at least, and I wasn't the one who removed the link) seem to sufficiently noteworthy to get on a list of about 6 poetry "organizations and publications" .. but then I also have my doubts about including American Poetry Review, Contemporary Poetry Review, and Miami Poetry Review. It is not unreasonable for wikipedia to provide some sort of "writers' resources" information somewhere. I do not know if this exists yet but such a place might be more appropriate. Of course wikipedia isn't an appropriate place for advertising or "link-spam", and adding information about oneself and one's own noteworthiness will often end in the changes being reverted, by other more 'objective' editors. — Stumps 17:02, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick response, and I see what you're saying. The sites I saw were more 'traditional' though and didn't represent some of the great, small poetry communities on the web. Maybe another section for 'independent/online poetry journals or communities'? Also, if I collected what I think to be the best three or four of these sources in addition to mine, would that help some? There's a whole other world of poetry out there that isn't represented here... Thanks again.

I could see adding something like this where there was a rationale behind selection and some level of policing to avoid it getting out of hand - I've identified some criterion I'd use for links on this site. See if you think they work, and if there is a case for these. Though, like stumps said, it may make more sense to have a separate wiki page devoted to a topic that could cover these kinds of organizations. Sam 14:35, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipoetry

An idea for a collective poetry writing wiki.

At the moment in the sandbox poetry http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox/Poetry – it says – ‘do not edit other people’s poems’. This seems out of the spirit of Wikipedia. Surely there are on the Web, or can be created on Wikipedia an area for merely mere to display their poems. However, in keeping with the wiki-mentally a collective-poem writing exercise seems the way to go.

How would this work?

As with other pages, you put your content on the page, and other people can add, edit, copy, reorganize etc. History can be kept – poems can split in two like a forked path – and join together like tributaries to a great river.

There could be a place to put ‘ideas’ probably in prose for poems. You could start a poem and ask others to complete it. It could be subdivided into narrative, didactic, humourous, epic, ‘hip-hop’ etc. poetry. And themes: death, Renaissance, Internet, nature, revolution!

What precedents?

If I understand it well, ancient poetry was made in a similar collaborative effort. There was not one version of a poem, but the poems were turned by different tongues and progressively modified – whilst retaining the same central story. This I believe is how much early Homeric poetry was created, the difference being we will be using our keyboards.

What other projects?

It could be envisaged that this format if successful could be used for other story-telling formats in prose.

London boy (london.booy@yahoo.co.uk)

Comments:

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Collaborative translation of poetry and other classics is something that has been kicking around a while with little interest generated ... see [1] and [2]. The idea of a collaborative poetry platform is quite interesting ... I imagine that the very idea of collaboration would work to exclude a large number of would-be-poets, but it is hard to guess what sort of result there might be ... I am reminded of the Yellow River Concerto, which is often attributed to the Yellow River Composers' Committee. — Stumps 16:01, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Renga! Sam 18:05, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Definitions of poetry

The quotes from Frost and Sandberg, without explanation, are not particularly helpful. They seem more suitable for wikiquote. I'll put this page on my list to work on. Evan Donovan 21:06, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

More forms of poetry are needed. More moderns forms relative to kids and students are especially lacking.

The various poetry forms should also be re-arranged by alpabetical order. Perhaps after all of the various forms are added, someone should take the time to move them around so they make better sense? --Watchguy 17:05, 17 August 2007

Can anyone think of more Poetry forms to include? Keep it up!! -- Poetryrus 18:22, 17 August 2007

Appropriate Links

I regularly remove external links on this page that point to sites that display copyright protected poetry under the guise of being "user created". I also regularly remove external links on this page that point to an individual poets home page. Am I interpreting the External links style guide correctly in doing so? (i.e. point 5 under "Occasionally acceptable links" and presumably 3 and 9 under "Links to normally avoid"). --Bhabing 15:22, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Added to the list of external links on this page that I am removing (unless someone out there corrects my interpretation) are blogs and message boards (violating #10 on External links); links that are aimed at a single sub-types of poetry as they should go on pages dedicated to those genres, nationalities, or ethnic-groups; sites featuring poetry as just one genre among many; and finally, I am viewing liks with blatantly misleading titles (general when the site is specific) as attempting to sell the site, and therefore also against the guidelines. --Bhabing 18:28, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Add Smithsonian "The Music in Poetry" link?

Hello! I am a writer for the Smithsonian's Center for Education, which publishes Smithsonian in Your Classroom, a magazine for teachers. Our most recent issue is titled "The Music in Poetry." The lesson plans introduce students to the rhythms of poetry--to the idea that poetry has a rhythm--by focusing on two poetic forms that originated as forms of song: the ballad stanza, found throughout British and American literature, and the blues stanzas of Langston Hughes. An online version of the issue is available for free download at this address:

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/music_in_poetry/index.html

Accessible from this page is a free audio site that Smithsonian Folkway Recordings set up to accompany the issue. Students can listen to musical ballads and blues and compare them to the poem.

If you think that visitors would find this valuable, I wish to invite you to include a link to our site. We would be most grateful.

Thank you so much for your attention.

It looks useful; I think you should add it. :-) Ruakh 19:49, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

I outlined some criteria below that I'd apply, and I think this makes it. The site is clearly notable and credible, it has information not available elsewhere on wiki, it is non-commercial; my only concern is whether it is indeed general or whether it belongs on another page relating to poetry. But I'd like to see it somewhere. Sam 14:31, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

external link

Do you think that Poetry Talk would be worthy of putting in the external links section?

I'd like to see Ergo Poetry in the list. Unlike some of the others listed, there are no ads on the site! Thanks.

First, thanks for asking. I would be opposed to adding each of the above. I did not find on either an "about" tab that stated clearly who was running the site and what each site's purpose is, and believe it is impossible to determine the notability or credibility of the site without knowing who is running it and why. If anyone disagrees, please feel free to discuss here. Also, please sign your posts with four tildes (~) so we know who is leaving the note. Thanks, Sam 14:28, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for answering. I'll work on getting an about page up, although I notice most of the smaller poetry e-pubs are gone? Granted it isn't notable yet, but we're working on it. Thanks. Kpaul.mallasch 15:36, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Link Criteria

I hate cleaning links off here, but it's got to be done or we'd have more links than text. I think we should identify criteria for listing links here, so it's clear what gets deleted and what gets discussed. Some ideas: (1) links should be general, since this is the Poetry page, and links relating to, for example, Latin American poetry or British poetry should be on a page devoted to Latin American Poetry or British poetry; (2) links should be to sites that are non-commercial; (3) linked sites should be notable, (4) linked sites should be credible; (5) linked sites should add resources, insight, perspective or detail not available on wikipedia (e.g., original research, copyright material, etc.); and (6)where a link inside wiki is possible (e.g., Poetry Magazine), we should switch from a link off wiki to a link on wiki. In figuring out whether something is notable, credible, non-commercial, etc., we should be looking to clear statements of ownership, policy, and affiliation on the sites themselves at an absolute minimum. Sam 14:28, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Restructuring: Summary Style

I starting restructuring this article to reflect summary style, so that some of the other very good poetry related pages are brought together here. I think "form" and "history" each need a lot of work, and am working on some ideas in my own sandbox. Feel free to contribute ideas there as well as here; I'll incorporate some of that material with the material that's already here as its ready for prime time (or as I need to fill in a newly created heading like "stanza"). Sam 13:23, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

Sandburg quote (again)

I see someone in the archived talk page raised the same issue, but there was no reply. The Sandburg quote in the intro doesn't really seem to be up to the standard of the rest of the article. Is there a particular reason for including it? It just seems a bit silly ... at least in isolation. Stumps 15:18, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

It and the Frost quote should both be moved or deleted: neither is a real definition, though the Sandburg quote is phrased as one. (Incidentally, this was also mentioned on this page; see #Definitions of poetry, above.) Ruakh 15:46, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

I agree, and unless someone raises an objection soon, I'm just gonna change them when I have a chance (unless, of course, anyone wants to beat me to the punch). Sam

The deed is done. I moved the entire paragraph to the "Nature of Poetry" and pulled out Sandburg's line (it's better read with the whole poem anyway); that Nature of Poetry section still needs work. Sam 19:01, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

- "written"

I removed the term "written" from the lead sentence. I thought it too restrictive in either sense. Poetry is not always in writing, and exists in cultures without writing: oral poetry exists. Nor is it necessarily composed in advance; it is possible to improvise poetry. Smerdis of Tlön 19:16, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Excellent. Sam 19:18, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Keeping a lower profile

JA: Level 1 headers are not supposed to be used interior to articles. Right now there's a 1 without a 2 in the rhyme scheme section, so the outline depth can be decreased there. Jon Awbrey 21:54, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Nature of Poetry - Help! Featured Article Time?

I've done some work on the Nature of Poetry, but it remains the weakest section in my opinion. Can anyone add some discussion of non-Western aesthetic traditions here? Are there other pages, like the Aristotle's poetics pages or the Ars Poetica page, that should be referenced in this section?

I'm thinking that once the Nature of Poetry section sees some improvement, it would be good to submit this article for featured article status - are there a couple of people who will commit to helping follow up on the suggestions that result from the FA process? I'll help. Sam 13:51, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Linkspam and external links

I note this article has seen yet another influx of linkspam, with the current spammer not only adding his own but deleting others (such as the link to Poetry magazine). It strikes me that it's about time to clean house on the external links and limit them to the truly useful. I do find Poetry magazine useful, and think the Paris Review would also be useful. Bartleby, the Library of Congress, Project Guttenberg, and most of the major journals strike me as useful. While the "Bob's Byways" link has a pretty good collection of definitions, I think they are all in Wikipedia at this point and it's time for that to go. Are there others people want to keep or get rid of? I've leave the discussion alive here for a while, and then start cutting unless there is consensus otherwise. Sam 14:09, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

writing it

Scince I have learned about poetry, and even more how to write it, I don't even need to journal anymore it is a great way to convey your feelings into a beautiful way.Tennislachica 19:36, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Poetry and wit

Why doesn't this article say anything about the close relationship between poetry and humor?--BMF81 02:18, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Maybe because there isn't one. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by KenFehling (talk • contribs) 04:09, 28 March 2007 (UTC).

Alliterisen

I edited out a description of a minor form developed by one poet from the summary of forms - the inserted material made up the entire article on the form. I think we should also eliminate Acrostic - the description is not terribly interesting, and there is already mention of acrostics in the visual presentation discussion.

Sam 14:52, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Tom Zart

... Ridiculous. Discuss? Greenagain 05:45, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Pure spam. Sam 13:32, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Sounds kinky. *moans* —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.44.112.183 (talk) 21:26, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Recent changes

A lot of good work has gone into tightening up the language and clarifying and focusing the language. I've restored one paragraph I thought was important, with some changes to clarify it, and changed the form of the lead back to the default, which I think looks better. Also, a section on fables was added to the discussion of forms recently, and I don't think it belongs there (fables are not forms of themselves, but are a genre cast in various forms), but do think we should preserve the thoughts somewhere. Any ideas as to where it would fit right? Sam 14:44, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

Genres

The idea of a subsection on Genres for the fables discussion is great - I don't want to interrupt the editing, so I'll just kick in a few ideas here and come back sometime to work on them. I think it would be best if this were like the "forms" discussion, examples of different genres rather than an attempt to exhaustively list them. We need a general discussion of what a "genre" is. Some of the one's I think of worth potentially worth expounding on include Epic poetry, Hymns/Psalms, and Verse drama; our selection should bring out examples that are important in every major literary culture. It may be worth a quick review of the different pages devoted to poetry of various cultures to see what gets emphasized. We may also want to look back at the rest of the article and think about how to weave in some thoughts about genre in the broader discussion. As always, we'll need to come up with some cites - I'll come up with a few of those. Nice work. Sam 18:52, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Protect from vandalism?

The "Poetry" article continually attracts vandals, wasting much time to revert grafitti. Is it perhaps time to start protecting this article by blocking editing by unregistered users, or by some other means? logologist|Talk 21:17, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree. I first came on this page looking for what wikipedians had come up with for a sensible definition of "poetry" and found the page vandalized. The frequency with which this page attracts vandals seems unusual to me, I support requesting semi-protection. Massimamanno 01:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

The article is now semi-protected. logologist|Talk 21:15, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

HAIKU

Requesting link to haiku page. Haikus are a form of poetry

"Haiku" is available through "Poetry terminology," listed under the "Poetry" article's "See also." logologist|Talk 04:00, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

This and many other forms of poetry are missing. --Poetryrus 16:45, 17 August 2007

I'm happy to FINALLY see a few new poetry forms added! THANKS for the improvements. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.61.58.203 (talk) 02:10, August 22, 2007 (UTC)

External Links

I'd like to nominate the Library of Congress Poetry page as a could candidate for an external link. What do you guys think? --Thorpus 16:23, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

As part of the recent featured article review, all external links, including that one, were deleted. It's a good page, but I'm not anxious to return to constant policing of external links. A Musing 16:39, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

TOC

The table of contents is sort of hard to notice on the right side - would it be better if we had a Compact TOC? Computerwiz908 | Talk 00:02, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree! I was just going to bring this up. The ToC as it currently sits does not make the page easier to navigate which, I think, is the purpose of a ToC. Why have it flushed to the right at all? --Midnightdreary 03:54, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Formless Multiculturalism

This article seems to be more a study of avoidance of the canonical works of the world than a discussion of poetry as most people might recognize it. Who the heck is Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry to most of us? Why Robinson Jeffers? I happen to be a fan, but he is hardly a MAJOR poet. Archibald Macleish was at best a third rate poet, though his "line" has become famous. Lewis Carroll is not known for his poetry nearly so much as for Alice in Wonderland. Why in particular is a Chinese poem featured prominently in an English language article; the poem doesn't predate anything in the Western World and the question remains is it important in the Eastern World? Why is it important to show a Russian poem on a wall in Holland to demonstrate stanzas other than to pursue some kind of campaign of multiculturalism? I daresay it does not advance the reader's knowledge of what a stanza is. It's nice, but a bit wide of the mark. In other words, the effort here seems to be to to favor the obscure over the well known. But hey!, how can anything be well known if no one talks about it?

Poetry is the language of communication

If you are looking for an article on the English language canon, I would recommend to you the English poetry, Poetry of the United States, and Irish poetry articles. This particular article is meant to give an overview of poetry in general, including a bit of the history of poetry (not just English poetry, but poetry as a whole), the aesthetics of poetry, and major poetic concepts, and there's been an attempt to have it serve as a good starting point to the full breadth of articles relating to poetry on Wikipedia (which, of course, does include classical poetry and poetry from other parts of the world.

To address a couple of specific examples from your rant, the Snark is quite a good example of anapestic tetrameter, and a nod to anapestic tetrameter is quite useful since the meter is used almost exclusively for light verse, and is a fairly easy to understand demonstration of how a poetic form reinforces and sets the tone for the substance of the poem. Paul Valéry is a well known French figure, a bridge between Symbolism and high modernism, who happened to make a good point, and is included for the point he made. I didn't add it, but it fits. Jeffers use of sprung verse is included in part because it is a good example of a recent poet experimenting with resurrected poetic forms; if you have another example, you may want to add it. If you'd like to expand Wikipedia's coverage of the English or Western canon, please, there is plenty of work to do! You may particularly want to look at the History of poetry article, which is in a very raw state, or try to get the English poetry or Poetry of the United States articles back to featured status, or make some suggestions of good alternative illustrations of these points here - what would you use for an illustration of Stanza? A Musing 15:24, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Poems & songs

Hi. Nowhere in this article can I find a mention that poems (typically) do not have a melody - one of the basic characteristics that distinguishes them from (most) songs. This seems a fairly big omission. What do other editors think? SP-KP (talk) 20:02, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Auld lang syne, by Robert Burns, was apparently both poem and song from the first.

Quite a few other poems have been set to music.

A fair number of musical compositions have been retrofitted with words, e.g. Stranger in Paradise.

Are all songs otherwise poems? Nihil novi (talk) 21:28, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Worthy of discussion, but I'd be wary of the idea that there is not a melody to many poems, especially when you consider poetry in tonal languages and historic forms (remember, the idea of "lyric" poetry is derived from poetic forms that were accompanied by a lyre). I think it may be hard to define a concept of a "melody" that would exclude poetic forms common to any number of places and times. Do you have any academic discussion or citation for the proposition? (By the way, I do think the relationship between poetry and music is a complex and very intereting one, worthy of discussion - I just don't want to jump to conclusions on it based on what has become habitual in the most common poetry in English language cultures today).

I feel that poetry is a useless way to torture students. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.135.12.34 (talk) 19:00, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Question: Hip hop? Is it contemporary English language poetry that is inseparable from its musical elements? A Musing (talk) 22:43, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

What a great question.I do think is a form of poetry.Thank you.--Thispoems (talk) 19:17, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

I read with interest this section.126.43.236.107 (talk) 18:22, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Theopoetics?

Is the topic of theopoetics so important as to merit a link from the main poetry article? I could think of several "see also" articles that would be more relevant. Even better, I think that the link to theopoetics should be removed and the list of "see also" links thereafter left alone: perfection isn't achieved when everything that can be added has been added, but when everything that can be taken away has been taken away. 63.96.62.31 (talk) 17:10, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Languages and redirects

I am adding a link to the same article in Danish, but there seems to be some confusion about the titles of the articles because of rdirects. The articles redirect as follows:

• English Poem to Poetry
  • Danish da:Digt (poem) does not redirect, but exists: it contains information about Poetry.
• Danish da:Poesi (poetry) to da:Lyrik (lyrics).
  • English Lyrics does not redirect, but exists and is about lyrics.

For the case that anything changes, I link to the redirecting da:Poesi. Change it if you find something different better, I just explain the redirects here so that you know why I link to a redirect. 87.60.70.121 (talk) 22:00, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Metre

The very first 'corrections' I made a year or so ago to any Wiki article were, I admit, writing the words in English, as opposed to American. OK, I accepted the subsequent admonishment... and have not sinned again... but, it is impossible to read, without cringing, an article about poetry with references to meter, i.e. something that records the volume of electricity I use, and which does not mention 'metre', that which is essential to poetry. How can we reach some compromise in Wiki. Tony in Devon (talk) 16:08, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

A section on Poet Laureates?

Wondering if a section could be made added or a link to the various Poet Laureates of the US(if there were any!) England I know has had a Poet Laureate for ????Thanks!PMEVAug13,200921stcent."X"EAJ.EDSONNTESLATSWIFTSR (talk) 05:42, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

I've added "Poet laureate" to the "See also" section. "Poet laureate" discusses the topic pretty exhaustively and provides names of individual poets laureate for many countries, even—in some cases—down to county jurisdictions. Thanks for reminding us of the institution of poet laureate! Nihil novi (talk) 19:53, 14 December 2017 (UTC)

Tu Fu and Beowulf???

The article contained the following sentence

While readers accustomed to identifying poetry with Dante, Goethe, Mickiewicz and Rumi may think of it as being written in rhyming lines and regular meter, there are traditions, such as those of Du Fu and Beowulf, that use other approaches to achieve rhythm and euphony.

This is not strictly accurate. Du Fu's poetry is rhymed and metrical. Beowulf likewise follows a (fairly rigorous) meter, so I replaced these examples with Biblical poetry. Szfski (talk) 19:50, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Derivation

Okay, this has been bugging me for a while. The derivation of poetry is not the greek poesis. I can't tell you what exactly it is, but I think the latin for it is poetas, which would be closer. Or maybe it comes through French poesie? Either way the current etymology is innaccurate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.176.120.144 (talk) 19:48, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

English, Latin and French all come from the Greek. The OED has that etymology, which should probably be restored to the article. Mcewan (talk) 22:25, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Categorical Effectiveness

Why aren't there more effective categories specifically on possible subdivisions of poetry? I tried to find 20th century poets and was redirected to here. Again, I tried "American poets" and was similarly redirected here. Why wouldn't there be a category for "20th century poets" or "american poets"? It shouldn't be presumptive of me to think that something has fallen through the cracks of thought, if we can't categorize "poets" by century or nationality... Does anyone else think likewise? Stevenmitchell (talk) 17:00, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Don Juan's meter?

I don't know why the "Metrical Patterns" section has Byron's Don Juan in anapestic tetrameter. Byron wrote it in iambic pentameter, as in "I want a hero, an uncommon want/When every year and month sends forth a new one". Would anyone mind if I removed the poem from the list, or at least put it in its proper place?--168.122.245.234 (talk) 18:20, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Origins of the Word "Poetry"

Are you sure that it originates from Helenica? I would have thought it originated from the Latin "poeta", meaning poet. --Draxacoffilus (talk) 03:21, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Interesting point. dictionary.com appears to support your position. --gråb whåt you cån (talk) 07:07, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Image in ghazal section

A few hours ago, I made this edit, reverting the unexplained removal of an image from the ghazal section of this article, as the edit summary explained nothing ("Clean-up,not leveled to be mentioned here and also not proper relevant,image removed"). Subsequently, the editor posted to my my talk page as below. I have requested her to move the discussion here, as it is relevant to this article. --gråb whåt you cån (talk) 19:16, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

== Your edit is Rv ==

• Hi,You reverted my edit saying that,"Rv unexplained removal of image,Ehsan Sehgal,your edit summary was incomprehensible."

I did not act Rv,acctually your reverting edit is Rv and without giving reasons and explaining summary that why you think it must be reverted. As I am familair to that area of the subject,I know who is who?.There are hundreds of biographical articles of poets,it does not mean you add their names everywhere,you want.Wikipedia has a standard and for it requires classical entries,not just an entry.In the article Poetry section Ghazal,should be the image of any classical or prominent poet,not just a poet.And other thing removed subject of image is a comic poet,and section Ghazal requires images of classical and prominent poets of puur ghazal,as like Ghalib, Mir and etc.

Please take a look at Ghazal,then may you understand,why I removed the image.Please do not revert any edit without explaining properly.I have ask, about your Rv reverting,to User:LadyofShalott,her assistance in this regard,after this I will react accordingly.Cheers.Ehsan Sehgal (talk) 18:23, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Started to cmt at my page, then decided to come to Bagworm's page, then saw his reply and am now here. I've been helping Ehsan out where I can (if you wish, you can say "mentor", although neither of us would), so he asked me to comment here. His point seems to be that Anwar Masood is not a good example of Ghazal poetry, due to Masood's being a "comic" poet. I'm somewhat inclined to agree with him - Masood's page doesn't even mention Ghazal, and you'd think that the image should be of someone well known for their use of that format - but I'm also not involved in this page at all, and would defer to more knowledgeable editors. Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 19:23, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

(edit conflict) ::Thank you, Ehsan, for your explanation of why you removed the image. If you had explained it in your edit summary I might have been less quick to revert. I agree that ideally we should have a picture of a prominent poet for this section, but failing that, it is no harm to have a picture of a less prominent one. So if you wish to replace the current image with that of a more prominent poet, please do. But if you don't have one, there seems no reason to remove the photo that is in the article now. --gråb whåt you cån (talk) 19:25, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

"Unexplained removal" was not quite accurate as Ehsan did attempt to make an explanation in his edit summary - it would have been more appropriate to ask on the talk page for a clarification of that explanation instead of reverting with that as an edit summary. That being said, the appropriate discussion is now being held here. Are there any photos of more prominent Ghazal poets available? LadyofShalott 19:41, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Done. "Unexplained" doesn't mean someone didn't try to explain; it just means they didn't succeed. Thanks for your constructive engagement, Nolelover. --gråb whåt you cån (talk) 19:57, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

And thank you for your help. :) Nolelover ^{Talk·Contribs} 22:19, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

• I assume good faith to make standards of the wiki.encyclopedia.I am busy to improve that part of area,I mean Urdu poets,poetry and etc.Thank you very much all of you.I will come to you always when I need your assistance and help.Cheers. Ehsan Sehgal (talk) 20:22, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

FA concerns

This article needs improvement on its referencing and comprehensive. Throughout the entire article, there are multiple Citation Needed templates and unreferenced sections on the page. As well, there are sections in the article that need expanding, like the ones found in the Form section. There should also be some fixing of dab links. GamerPro64 22:26, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

public performance of poetry

This article apparently says nothing about the public recitation of poetry! It only mentions and links to performance poetry, and i now added the link to poetry reading. But both of those articles do not provide the missing information either. Performance poetry is a specific kind of poetry, whereas all poetry can be recited publicly. And the article on poetry reading only mentions public recitals by poets, not by others! But poetry doesn't even talk about and didn't even link to that!!

So the article also says nothing about how poetry is again increasingly being recited orally in public after a long period of being mostly read silently or being read or recited to oneself or others in private.

There must be organizations of poetry readers in English speaking countries such as this Finnish organization, which points out that the art of poetry recitation has its roots in ancient Greece, where professional itinerant poetry reciters, called rhapsodists accompanied their performances with the guitar (should read: kithara). And now i discovered that there is even WP article on that topic although this article also doesn't mention that and didn't even have a link! --Espoo (talk) 11:47, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Definition of poetry

This first sentence of the article defines poetry as "a form of literary art which uses the aesthetic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning." However, this seems to me both absurd and inaccurate in its usual English usage, since most prosaic writers (of, for example, novels) would consider their works crafted to evoke aesthetic qualities just as much as poetry and yet decidedly not poetry. The absurd part of this definition is that of course a form of "literary art" would have "aesthetic qualities"....All art does by definition. It seems to me that the much more accurate definition of poetry in modern English centers around its structural rather than aesthetic qualities. In particular, poetry is defined by its use (or deliberate disuse) of structural features, such as rhythm, meter, and (perhaps, the most defining) verse, i.e. its structuring of groups of words into lines. The Book of Literary Terms by Lewis Turco (1999) states: "Prose, that is, unmetered language, and verse, that is, metered" (9). So often, I see the dichotomy of "prose vs. verse" and "prose vs. poetry." Why are poetry and verse so often both regarded as the opposite of prose? I suspect it is because verse is a fundamental feature of poetry. Although beauty or art are often are associated with poetry, they do not define it. That, it seems to me, is done by a particular poetical structure (and often, in modern times, a hybridizing of that structure with prosaic elements or a conscious breakdown of, or moving away from, that structure. But in any case, a conscious attention paid to the structure by the poem's creator). Other thoughts? Wolfdog (talk) 02:16, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Semi-active

I removed the transclusion tag for the "semi-active" template, since it does not appear to be particularly helpful in this case. Dcattell (talk) 17:27, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Forms

Can someone please include death poems (Jisei) and/or threnodies? --MightySaiyan (talk) 15:52, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Sounds like a good idea. Why don't you try your hand at adding it to the "Genres" section, maybe after "Elegy"? Nihil novi (talk) 17:41, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Graphic Poetry

Did I miss it, or is there no section on graphic poetry? BelindaPereira (talk) 01:55, 30 May 2013 (UTC)BelindaPereira

Per usual, Wikipaeida buries the "lead" in the sixth sentence where EVEN THEN it "caveats" (1) the obvious: that "poetry has sometimes been more generally regarded as a fundamental creative act employing language"...when the plain, obvious FACT is that

• • • POETRY***

• • • IS***

• • • IS, IS, IS***

• • • ALWAYS IS***

• • • A***

• • • FUNDAMENTAL***

• • • CREATIVE***

• • • ACT***

• • • EMPLOYING***

• • • LANGUAGE***

(1) "caveats" is an obscene syntactical creation of Gen. Alexander Haig, who was in charge of the American government in the Watergate transition/handover of power from Richard Nixon to Gerald Ford.

Later Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan and Commanding General of NATO, Haig was the effective "president" or, if you will, behind-the-scenes Machiavelli for two presidents, one on the wax and one on the wane, for perhaps as many as two years.

Haig was a protege of Henry Kissinger -- who arranged the execution of democratically elected Chilean president Salvador Allende on 9/11 1971 in a military coup d'etat of the democratically elected government by Chilean fascist Gen. Augusto Pinochet who used actual escaped World War II Nazis to assist in "disappearing" Chilean dissidents, Hitler-style.

Haig is the kind of person who would agree that poetry is only all about rhyme and meter, nothing more, and besides it is useless because it doesn't train anyone to work at a real job in the American gulag and besides, poets and English teachers and professors are all subversive commiepinkos who need to be surveilled by the NSA because they are dangerous terrorists.Lethomme (talk) 15:09, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Example Of Poetry in Rhythm Scheme

My Miss Happiness by Johnson Pansoy

I. Oh! Beautiful Miss Happiness! My Girl, My Friend, My Lad! Oh! what a great fair blessedness, The only that I had.

II. Oh! how fair ye, miss happiness! The Girl I only Love! Oh! what a sacred faithfulness, The Girl I only Had.

III. Oh! My Fair young, Miss Happiness! The One I always care! Oh! my sadness easily cease, The One I always bear.

• And this is the poem of Johnson Pansoy. But, there are more 67 verses of this poem. One of this are afflictions and

sincerity. and this is his example of his Rhythm scheme. This poem is now translated more than 4 languages. one of this are German, Japanese, French and Georgian.

Here is the translation of his poem into German.

Mein Fräulein Glück von Johnson Pansoy

I. Ach! Schöne Frau Glück! Mein Mädchen, mein Freund, mein Junge! Ach! was für eine große Messe Seligkeit, Das einzige, dass ich hatte.

II. Ach! wie schön ihr, verpassen Glück! Das Mädchen Ich liebe Nur jetzt Ach! was eine heilige Treue, Das Mädchen hatte ich nur.

III. Ach! Meiner schönen jungeMiss Glücklichsein! derjenige immer egal! Ach! meine Traurigkeit einfach aufhören, derjenige immer zu tragen.

What about hip hop and slam poetry?

This article completely leaves out hip hop and slam poetry, two forms with some of the widest audiences today. Also, nearly every poet mentioned in the article is white, with the vast majority male. It could seriously use some modernization. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Plarke (talk • contribs) 02:10, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

definition of poetry - additional A distilled language form, unconstrained by sentence structure or grammar.86.21.54.94 (talk) 00:51, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

Need for a "Poetry Components and Styles" template

Hello. There is not a template for types of poems/styles of poems, which would contain such things as Alliterative verse, Bob and wheel, and the many other components of poetry. I would create it but, with my limited knowledge of the components and styles, if I did the template would be a collection of pages without order and specific sections. There are probably dozens of pages which would be entered on such a template. Can anyone create one, or at least start it off so other knowledgeable editors can assist? Thanks. Randy Kryn 13:34 4 April, 2015 (UTC)

Earliest Poetry is by a woman Enheduanna to the Goddess Inanna, not Gilgamesh

Earliest Recorded Poetry is by a woman Enheduanna to the Goddess Inanna, not Gilgamesh.

Wiki article here: https://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Enheduanna — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.31.228.11 (talk) 19:52, 21 September 2015 (UTC)

Cultural and Gender diversity

Hi there @Nihil novi:, I added an image representing shijing poetry to this page a few days ago. The image was quickly removed. My intention was to improve the cultural representation in the images on this page. Poetry from China, India and other places is mentioned (fairly briefly) on this page but most of the images are of white male poets. Overall, In my opinion this page is too focused on western poetry and poetry traditions from other parts of the world are dealt with too superficially. I would suggest that work is needed on the text in order to engage with other poetry traditions more substantially. However, a fairly easy way to improve the cultural representation of the page, at least in the short term, would be to add some photos that illustrate the cultural representation already mentioned in the article. On this basis I would argue that my image of shijing poetry should be reinstated on the page. I also perceive a gender bias on this page - in images and text. Two women are mentioned in the text - Marianne Moore and Sappho. Images of these women, at the very least, should be added to the page. However, I reckon more examples of women poets for the various sections of the article should also be added. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gingerlemondrink (talk • contribs) 19:48, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

I'm all in favor of appropriate inclusiveness, but I would start by augmenting the respective texts. Otherwise an illustration without provision of some background—particularly an exotic text with little, if any, explanation—strikes the reader like the sudden materialization of some space alien.

Thanks!

Nihil novi (talk) 23:19, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks @Nihil novi: I agree with you that it is best when the images link to the text. My image of the shijing poetry did link to the text. Therefore, I would still argue that my edit, the image to represent the shijing poetry, should be reinstated. Shijing poetry was mentioned right in the section where I added the image. It would not be a surprise for the reader to see an image which represented shijing poetry because it is mentioned within the text already. As I also said, Sappho and Marianne Moore are also mentioned already in the text of the article. Therefore including images of them would mitigate to a small extent the gender bias in the images on the page. User:gingerlemondrink

I've restored your illustration of the commentary on the Shijing, together with more caption text.

In the process, I've edited the whole "History" section for clarity and restored its corrupted final paragraph.

Please consider adding illustrations of Sappho and Marianne Moore.

Thanks.

Nihil novi (talk) 22:38, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

I've added illustrations of Sappho and Marianne Moore.

Please consider further illustrations.

Nihil novi (talk) 06:04, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi @Nihil novi: Sorry for the delay getting in touch but I just wanted to say thank you for reinstating the illustrations and putting so much work into the poetry page. It is looking and reading much better I reckon. Gingerlemondrink (talk) 16:17, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for bringing attention to neglected aspects of the subject! Nihil novi (talk) 22:32, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

A new form: Duodacy

There is a new form of poetry, it is called Duodacy. It has three verses, the Syntax, Soliloquy and Solution. The innovator intended to put this on the Wikipedia but he is having quite a challenge with the medium. It is quite interesting though... El'Shazzar (talk) 08:09, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

Drama

How do you appreciate drama and prose in English Literature

El Mats22 (talk) 18:23, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

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The Introduction is a contradiction

"literature" is not "oral". the african "poetry" would not be "poetry" by the slack meaning given first at the top. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yoandri Dominguez Garcia (talk • contribs) 04:23, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia article on "Oral literature".

Thanks.

Nihil novi (talk) 10:21, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Poetry Translation

While I edited quite a few articles (minor edits and additions) and even had my first article approved (YAY!), I am most definitely a beginner. Learning. I looked for a category called Poetry Translation, but I did not find any. Before I mess with creating categories (I am still trying to understand how it works, so this will not happen in any hurry) - I am just asking for some guidance. Is there such a category? Am I missing it? I am not sure if this fits under either Poetry or Translation. In the broad literary research field (academia), Poetry Translation is a genuine discipline, independent of both Poetry, and other forms of Translation such as Prose Translation, Technical Translation etc.

Any thoughts? yakshaver

There is a brief section on poetry translation in the Wikipedia "Poetry" article.

Thanks.

Nihil novi (talk) 10:50, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

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