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Xeno Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

When extracting text from poems...

Hello. I'm working on a video that will be presented publically, and it features an extract from one poem and I have to emphasize that due to the copyright stuff as you all know, but I'd like to check the conventional form for it. So, is it said extracted from "insert the poem name" or there's some other form?
  

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It's hard to say without knowing the exact context. For example, is this part of a larger sentence? Is it spoken before or after a reading from the poem?

— Mr Wordy

  • It's hard to say without knowing the exact context.
  • For example, is this part of a larger sentence?
  • Is it spoken before or after a reading from the poem?
  • Is it printed somewhere as part of a copyright acknowledgement?
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It's hard to say without knowing the exact context. For example, is this part of a larger sentence? Is it spoken before or after a reading from the poem? Is it printed somewhere as part of a copyright acknowledgement?
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An entire poem consisted of two stanzas appears in my video and once the video goes blank, the name of the author appars on the screen (my name, that is) and that's where I will be writing a copyright acknowledgement as well. The funny fact is that the song doesn't have a name. It's part of a larger published collection of poems named 'Nine Alexandrias', so basically, that's the only reference I
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I'm very sorry, Xeno, but having responded to your post I now realise I am unable to answer your question. It seems to have legal implications that I am not qualified to advise on.
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Ah, never mind. But thanks for replying anyway.
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From "The Chicago Manual of Style" (11.83-84, Poetry):

Long reference:

Now more than ever seems it rich to die,

To cease upon the midnight with no pain,

While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad

In such an ecstasy

(Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale," stanza 6)

Shortened reference:
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