Poem (with line numbers)

In-text citation

When Homer’s Odysseus comes to the hall of Circe, he finds his men “mild / in her soft spell, fed on her drug of evil” (10.209-10).

Explain

For a poem, cite the part (if there are a number of parts) and the line numbers, separated by a period.

For poems that are not divided into parts, use line numbers. For a first reference, use the word “lines”: (lines 5-8). Thereafter use just the numbers: (12-13).

Works cited entry

Homer. The Odyssey. Trans. Robert Fagles. Ed. Bernard Knox. New York: Penguin, 2006. Print.

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