Talk:Mariana (poem)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: —Ed (talk • contribs) 00:56, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

1. Is it reasonably well written?

   A. Prose quality:

   B. MoS compliance:

2. Is it factually accurate and verifiable?

   A. References to sources:

   B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:

   C. No original research:

3. Is it broad in its coverage?

   A. Major aspects:

   B. Focused:

4. Is it neutral?

   Fair representation without bias:

5. Is it stable?

   No edit wars, etc:

6. Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?

   A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:

   B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:

7. Overall:

   Pass or Fail:

• Hey again Ottava, great work. A few suggestions for further devolopment:
• "Tennyson wrote Mariana in 1830 and printed it within Poems, Chiefly Lyrical."
  • What is "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical"? A literary magazine?
• "However, Mariana, like The Lady of Shallott, is a lyrical narrative. It contains, like the poem Oriana, a refrain that carries through the poem"
  • "like the __" -> "like the ___" = repetitive
• "The rhyme scheme of the poem, abab cddc efef, ..."
  • Is there a better way of rendering this? I may know what "abab cddc efef" mean only becuase of AP English, but I don't know how many other would...
• Check the quotation mark placement in line 9-12.
• "A review by a "Professor Lyall" in 1878 argues, "As descriptive poetry, and for that feature of realistic description so characteristic of Tennyson's muse, 'Mariana' has, perhaps, not been surpassed even by him.""
  • Does "Professor Lyall" need to be quoted here?
• Cheers, —Ed (talk • contribs) 00:56, 29 October 2009 (UTC)