Do you put the name of a poem in quotation marks?

Answer 1

The name of any important work of literature is usually set in quotation marks to show the importance of the subject. The same rule applies to book titles, movie/film titles, song titles, literary titles and basically anything with a title that has been written by someone else.

Answer 2

Yes, as in:

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, / Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit / Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, / Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it"

with "/" marking the line breaks.

Answer 3

Quoting poetry in writing is different than quoting prose (non-poetic writing). You still keep what you took from it in quotation marks, and you also list the reference; if you are talking about a poem and then quote a few lines from it, as the reference you put in parentheses at the end of the sentence, you list the lines the quote is from e.g. (lines 36-38). Now, other than that, you separate the lines of the poem with a "/" (the forward slash), and you keep the original capitalization at the start of each line. You can still quote fragments just like prose. When you are quoting poetry, a long quote (or a block quote) is when you quote three or more lines from a poem, as opposed to the four lines for a long quote when you quote prose.

Answer 4

Yes, the name of a poem should typically be enclosed in quotation marks when it is mentioned in a sentence or written text.

Answer 5

An alternate to quote marks, is to render the title in Italics. This convention is much used in bibliography.

Answer 6

no