Cite a Poem

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How to Cite a Poem- The Best Guide Ever
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Introduction
How to cite a poem?- This one question takes
away the nights sleep of many students. There
are so many types of referencing styles that it
becomes too overwhelming for students. Among
them, referencing poems is considered as the most
confusing one. Seriously what to remember and
what not? Need not to be worried as this blog
presents the ultimate guide to clear all your
doubts on how to cite a poem.
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How to Cite Lines from a Poem in Different
Referencing Styles?

• There are different types of referencing styles.
  It can be of various kinds, but the major types
  are as follows
• MLA
• APA
• Harvard
• Let us now see how you should cite the poem in
  the different referencing styles.

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How to Cite a Poem in MLA?
In-text At first, you must learn how to quote a
poem line. When you take few lines from a poem,
you have to use double quotation marks before and
after it. Separate each line with a
slash(/). Example Two roads diverged in a
yellow wood,/And sorry I could not travel both
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Examples
Examples
Example        Then took the other, as just as
fair,                         And having perhaps
the better claim,                         Because
it was grassy and wanted wear                 
       Though as for that the passing
there                         Had worn them
really about the same,                        
And both that morning equally lay                 
       In leaves, no step had trodden black.
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Examples
Example        Then took the other, as just as
fair,                         And having perhaps
the better claim,                         Because
it was grassy and wanted wear                 
       Though as for that the passing
there                         Had worn them
really about the same,                        
And both that morning equally lay                 
       In leaves, no step had trodden black.
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Examples
In both cases, the lines will have the in-text
citation at the end, where you put the last name
of the author along with page number. There will
not be any comma (,) in between. There are
different types of poem formats according to
which the content of the citation change like, if
it is a verse, you will write the line number
instead of the page no.
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Examples
Example Of all the things that happened there/
Thats all I remember (Cullen 11-12) You should
also know how to cite in an essay. There are
various ways to do this you can either mention
the authors name in the sentence before quoting
the poem lines or you can straight get into the
lines as shown above.
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Examples
Example In Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Evening, Robert Frost says, The woods are
lovely, dark, and deep,/ But I have promises to
keep,/And miles to go before I sleep.
(13-15). Apart from this, you can also include
the name of the poem in case you are using two
poems by the same author or many writers with the
same name.
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Examples
Example Romanticism is witnessed in many poems
of the 18th century, lines like When all at once
I saw a crowd,/A host, of golden daffodils
(Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 3-4),
and These waters, rolling from their
mountain-springs/With a soft inland murmur.Once
again (Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey 3-4) portrays
its essence.
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Examples
Work cited page- After you have written the
content, you need to create the works cited
section. For this, you have to start with a new
page. Here you will write the full detailed
reference of the source. It will go in the
following order, Last name of the author, comma
(,), First name, full stop (.), the poems title
with a full stop at end (.) within double
quotation marks.
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Examples
Example Barrett Browning, Elizabeth. How do I
love thee?. The Collected Poems of Elizabeth
Barrett Browning. London Wordsworth
Editions, 2015. 14. Print. In case of a poem
found on a website, you must use the following
format Last name of the poet, First name of the
poet. Name of the poem
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Examples
Example Frost, Robert. The Road Not
Taken. Poetry Foundation, Poetry
Foundation, You should also remember that each
reference must have a hanging indent.
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Examples
Citing poems in APA The APA or American
Psychological Association is one of the common
referencing styles used in academic writing. You
need to follow different formatting rules while
citing a poem in this style. If you are
wondering how to quote in an essay, then know
that it follows the same rule as MLA.
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Examples
Example How do I love thee? Let me count the
ways./I love thee to the depth and breadth and
height (Browning, 2015, p.14) Or you can cite
it in the following way
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Examples
Reference list This list will begin from a new
page and have the heading, Reference List. Here
also, the references will have the hanging
indent. It will follow the order authors last
name, initial of the first name. Publishing year
within the parentheses. Poem title. Book
name (page number). Location Publisher.
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Examples
Example Browning, E.B. (2015). How do I love
thee?. The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett
Browning (pp.14). London Wordsworth
Editions. In case of an online source, you have
to add the words retrieved from before the URL.
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Examples
Example Frost, R. The Road Not Taken. Poetry
Foundation, Poetry Foundation. Citing Poems in
Harvard In this style also, the lines of the poem
will be quoted in the same way as MLA and APA.
This style is much similar compared to APA style.
The in-text and bibliography are almost same in
the case of Harvard.
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Examples
Example- Some say the world will end in fire.
(Frost, 1969, p.1) Or, Robert Frost (1969) says
in his poem Fire and Ice, Some say the world
will end in fire. (p.1). Bibliography In the
bibliography or reference list, you have to
present the book in which the poem has been
issued.
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Examples
Example Browning, E.B., 2015. How do I love
thee?. The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett
Browning (pp.14). London Wordsworth
Editions. For an online source, use the words,
available at before the URL and here, the year
will be in within the parentheses.
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Examples
Example Frost, R. The Road Not Taken. Poetry
Foundation, Poetry Foundation. So, this is how
you can cite lines from a poem or the whole poem.
Use this guideline to cite the sources to create
perfect, precise citations.
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