Talk:ur-poem

Apparently no one believes me, but all the texts I've read have capitalized Ur-poem. I can provide examples, randomly-lowercasing moderators! 66.253.179.54 00:35, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Go for it. Mglovesfun (talk) 02:10, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
 * books.google.com/books?id=3G8rBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA163&dq=ur-poem & books.google.com/books?id=6LUcuGdJF30C&pg=PA115&dq=ur-poem & books.google.com/books?id=RKxkAAAAMAAJ&q=ur-poem have . There could be two forms... -10:42, 2 April 2018 (UTC) Above comment added by User:‎84.161.34.254
 * But top result of a books.google search for "ur-poem" [including ""] is:
 * You Must Change Your Life: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Birth of Sense
 * https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0271045337
 * John T. Lysaker - 2010 - ‎Preview - ‎More editions
 * Neither the individual poems nor the whole says everything. Nevertheless, every poem speaks out of the whole of this ur-poem, and says the ur-poem every time. From the site of the ur-poem rises the wave which, unfailingly, moves the saying as something poetic" (Heidegger 1985, 33).° The ur-poem can thus be read only via a "clarification" of the language of the poem. "Because the poet's singular ur-poem always remains within the unspoken, we can situate its Ort only in trying to ...
 * Capitalised versions may possibly show confusion with the city of Ur, but surely poems from there would be Ur poems [no hyphen] cf London poems or New York poems. A quick look suggests there is indeed a second, capitalised form "Ur-poem", perhaps a tenth as common as "ur-poem", though I haven't read the context enough to be certain the meaning is the same.  If you have, then if you want, add another entry for "Ur-poem", perhaps with definition 'Variant of "ur-poem"', but if you do so, I advise adding three cites to avoid it being speedy-deleted in error.  --Eng in ear 12:58, 2 April 2018 (UTC)