I’m really sorry, and I know your policy, but see. STUDENT 1: I need to ask for an extension on my paper. Professor Bearing? Can I talk to you for a minute? One of the flashbacks in Margaret Edson’s Wit suggests Vivian Bearing’s illness causes her to question some of her previous interactions with students: Maintain this pattern throughout the quotation (80).When the dialogue shifts to another character, start a new line indented half an inch.Indent all other lines in the character’s speech an additional amount.Follow the name with a period and then start the quotation.Indent each name half an inch from the left margin and write it in all capital letters.Begin each part of the dialogue with the appropriate character’s name.When you must quote dialogue from a play, adhere to these rules: So thou and I are nothing then, when on a divers shore. When a tear falls, that thou falls which it bore, My tears before they face, whilst I stay here,įor thy face coins them, and thy stamp they bear,Īnd by this mintage they are something worth,įruits of much grief they are, emblems of more, The English metaphysical John Donne uses indentation in some of his poems to create unusual layouts, as the first stanza of including “A Valediction: of Weeping” demonstrates: Unusual Layouts: If the layout of the lines in the original text is unusual, reproduce it as accurately as you can (79). William Carlos Williams depicts a vivid image in “The Red Wheelbarrow”: “so much depends / / upon / / a red wheel / / barrow / / glazed with rain / / water / / beside the white / / chickens” (“Williams”). Stanza Breaks: Mark stanza breaks that occur in a quotation with two forward slashes, with a space before and after them ( / / ) (78). Special Issues: Stanza Breaks, Unusual Layouts In addition to the amount quoted and line breaks, other factors that matter include stanza breaks, and unusual layouts. What can mine own praise to mine own self bringĪnd what is’t but mine own when I praise thee? Oh, how thy worth with manners may I sing Many students find the first four lines of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 39 puzzling: Indent the block half an inch from the left margin. Quoting more than three lines of verse Set these lines off from your text as a block. In the first two lines of the poem “Break of Day,” John Donne presents two questions: “’Tis true, ‘tis day, what though it be? / O wilt thou therefore rise from me?” (lines 1-2). Quoting two or three lines Follow the rule for quoting one line, and use a forward slash with a space on each side ( / ) to indicate where the line breaks fall (77).
Example: Many students enjoy William Yeats’s poem titled “A Prayer for My Daughter” one of its most tender lines appears in the second stanza: “I have walked and prayed for this young child and hour” (line 9). Quoting part or all of a line of a verse If it does not require special emphasis, put it in quotation marks within your text (77). The MLA Handbook offers specific guidelines for quoting poetry. This article discusses rules for using MLA style to format quotes from drama and poetry. The rules for quoting drama and/or poetry in Modern Language Association (MLA) Style differ from those for quoting the genre of prose.
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