Talk:The Green Eye of the Yellow God

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This is an encyclopaedia. You can't just dump the words of a song on a page and expect it to be accepted as a bona fide article--File Éireann 3 July 2005 19:35 (UTC)


 * Wow. This is a mess. I don't think it's a speedy deletion candidate, though. — Bcat (talk | email) 3 July 2005 20:32 (UTC)


 * It's not. This needs a copyvio tag, which I have given it. Denni &#9775; 2005 July 3 21:41 (UTC)


 * If you read the site he's got the article from it clearly states that, and I quote, "All material on this site is free for anyone to use, there are no copyrights on any of it" if you took the time to look into it you would have found this in a second, the page is badly designed and could do with one of you experts helping out on it but that appears to be the only problem I can see, a little more help for people who are just trying to contribute and a little less flaming, it's only good manners. rmpoole 6th July 2005 18:12 (GMT)

"Still one- eyed"
Perhaps the god is still one-eyed when the jewel is returned because it only ever had one eye, like a Cyclops.188.29.33.74 (talk) 15:20, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

I agree, and removed the line. The story doesn't make sense if the god originally had two; and the Colonel's daughter asked for "*the* green eye of the little yellow god", not *an* eye. 94.195.197.225 (talk) 20:20, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Text
If there are legal reasons for not copy/pasting the text here, should the link to it not at least be a little more prominent?

UrsusMaximus (talk) 22:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)


 * If the text you're referring to is that of the poem itself, there's no reason, either legal or in Wikipedia policy, why it cannot be reproduced.  Its author died more than 70 years ago, so it's out of copyright in both the UK, where it was written, and in the US.
 * David Wilson (talk · cont) 01:41, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Page move
I have moved the article back to its original place because the correct title of the work is The Green Eye of the Yellow God, not  The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God. It 's true that over time the piece has come to be widely referred to under the latter erroneous title. However, the correct title, The Green Eye of the Yellow God, is the one under which the piece was originally published, under which Bransby Williams performed it, and under which it was published in Michael R. Turner's anthology, Victorian Parlour Poetry.

David Wilson (talk · cont) 15:58, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Dramatic monologue?
It’s not a dramatic monologue. It’s just a poem. Jack Upland (talk) 07:22, 19 June 2024 (UTC)