


“Title of Poem.” Title of Book: Subtitle (if any), Edition (if given and is not first), Publisher Name (often shortened), Year of Publication, Website Name, URL. If the poem citation was taken from a website, it should be made in the following format: Poet’s Last Name, First Name.“A Book.” Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems, edited by Anthony Eyre, Mount Orleans Press, 2019, pp. “Title of Poem.” Title of Book: Subtitle (if any), edited by Editor’s First Name Last Name, Edition (if given and is not first), Publisher’s Name (often shortened), Year of Publication, pp. If the poem citation was taken from a book, it should be made in the following format: Poet’s Last Name, First Name.
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Don't forget to write a full reference for each source you use in your Works Cited page at the end of your essay.Long poem titles should be cited in italics.Įxample: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Because I could not Stop for Death.Short poem titles should be cited in quotation marks.Įxamples: “A Book”, “Fire and Ice”, or “Nothing Gold can’t Stay” If you would like to cite the title of the poem not in a parenthetical citation, but inside your text, there are two ways to do it, and it depends on the title’s length.If you mentioned the poet’s last name and poem’s title before the citation (if required as mentioned above), and you have no lines or page number, don’t make an in-text citation after the quote at all.Įxample: Here is what Pablo Neruda wrote about this feeling, “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, / in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”.Leave only the poet’s last name and poem’s title (if required as mentioned above).Įxample: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?” (Mary Oliver) If you found the poem from a website, or the page numbers are not available for other reasons, don’t put any numbers at all.Do not use a comma between the poet’s name and page number.Įxample: “Your head so much concerned with outer, / Mine with inner, weather.” (Frost 126)


