Template:RQ:Roethke Collected

The following documentation is located at Template:RQ:Roethke Collected/documentation.

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This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to format quotations from the poems of Theodore Roethke as collated and published in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke (1968). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work (contents) at the Internet Archive.

Where a specific quotation template exists (for example, {{RQ:Roethke Open House}}), use it instead of this template.

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |poem= or |chapter= – mandatory: the name of the "chapter" or poem quoted from. Names should be given as indicated in the Collected Poems work.

• |2= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11.
  • You must also use |pageref= to indicate the page to be linked to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

This parameter must be specified to have the template link to the online version of the work.

• |3=, |text=, or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment on the passage quoted.
• |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, “some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell”) rather than an actual use of it (for example, “we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset”), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Roethke Collected|poem=Death Piece|page=4|passage=His thought is tied, the curving prow / Of motion moored to rock; / And minutes burst upon a brow / '''Insentient''' to shock.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Roethke Collected|Death Piece|4|His thought is tied, the curving prow / Of motion moored to rock; / And minutes burst upon a brow / '''Insentient''' to shock.}}
• Result:
  • 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Death Piece”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber , 1968, →OCLC, page 4:

    His thought is tied, the curving prow / Of motion moored to rock; / And minutes burst upon a brow / Insentient to shock.