Talk:Lines (poem)

7 added lines
"For life is but a passing breeze " begins 7 lines that neither appear at p. 20 of The Poems of E.B. nor fit the 4-quatrain description. The ill-formatted contrib that added them was by a one-edit-IP editor who offered not even an edit summary. I decline what may AFAIK be this generous contribution of the poetry of the future, by undo or, if necessary, reversion. --Jerzy•t 23:12, 19 January 2015 (UTC)

A contributor's buddy "Emily", and her needlessly named sisters.
I suppose the contributor who repeatedly names that poet by given name may have contributed an excerpt from a work that appropriately makes its readers familiar with all three sisters, and thus must refer to them by their given names. ... Or perhaps a repurposed stand-alone piece where they were free to make the dubious editorial choice to evoke the effect of the deaths of both of her two sisters as if all three were the writer's buddies. But she didn't lose two of her three or four, nor is there any sign that her poem or her motivation reflect their individual roles in her emotional economy. Pending such causes of relevance of the sisters as individuals, i'm scrubbing out their individual names (available in a lk'd article, let's recall) and changing all subsequent refs to EB into "Brontë". --Jerzy•t 23:51, 19 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Yes, i do feel a little foolish (and have an urge to blame someone for my confusion, but never mind): her parents bore 5 children, and 4 got past age 11, so there will be contexts in various articles where readers distinguish the roles in her life of the various living and dead sisters. But the accompanying article does not do so, and if and when it begins to, those distinctions can be discussed by mentioning individual given names, even here if appropriate. Probably the right way to do it is begin the discussion with mention of "Emily Bronte", and contrive to refer to her as "Bronte" in a second use, before mentioning any of the sisters. E.g., "... written by Emily Bronte. Bronte had, at age [whatever], experienced the deaths of her mother and her sisters [Jo] and [Meg]." She can continue to be referred to as "Bronte" and them by their given names. --Jerzy•t 00:31, 20 January 2015 (UTC)