Talk:The Man with the Hoe

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The poem that was inspired by this painting was written by my great, great grandfather. It is the building blocks of the Grim Reaper. The painting is the advancement of mankinds understanding of pain, suffering, and death. Part of our view wordlwide of life and humanity are shared by a more modern image of the Reaper. It truly is mans advance in our view of life, and death. I grew up looking at an original print dedicated from the artist in my great grandfathers house. The original print is still here in Clio, Michigan. -Frederick M. Babcock —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.43.61.66 (talk) 17:38, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Poem text is excessive?
It was pleasant to read this verse for my first time, but it is surely over-indulgent to treat WP as an anthology/repository of writings with minimal commentary. The project guideline on individual poems prescribes "If it is a long poem, it should be linked, either from WikiSource, or from another website. The text of poems which are not copyrighted should in general be placed in WikiSource." I understand that the encyclopedic approach is to present information and facts about a poem, not to reproduce the whole text. A helpful example might be the article on "Lycidas". Bjenks (talk) 04:29, 17 September 2015 (UTC)