How do you cite a specific text in a poem? 5th grade level

Question

Step by step please. Make it a 5th grade level & please reply as quick as you possible can.

Answer 1

Amen, please see below.

First, check if the poem is a single poem with no different sections or if it has different sections.

Let's assume it's a poem *not* divided into parts. If so, the only information you need to give is the line number or line numbers of the poem.

Here is a sample poem by William Butler Yeats.

The Fish

BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Although you hide in the ebb and flow

Of the pale tide when the moon has set,

The people of coming days will know

About the casting out of my net,

And how you have leaped times out of mind

Over the little silver cords,

And think that you were hard and unkind,

And blame you with many bitter words.

As you are discussing the poem, let's imagine you want to refer to the line "Over the little silver cords."

Let's imagine you write that Yeats best line in the poem is that line. Here's what I imagine you wrote.

Yeats best line in the poem is the one that gives a simple, memorable image, which occurs in ""Over the little silver corrds" (6). The (6) refers to line 6.

If the poem comes from a book you refer to, then you need to use the page number with the line for the

first reference. For example, suppose it came on page five of a book of Yeats' poems and was line 120. Then you would write (Yeats 5 120).

.All the rest of the citations do not need the page numbers.

MLA latest style shows no need for the section # but just the lines

This should help.

Be well.

Howard Sage