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i wanted to write a song for you sultry and jazz some razzmatazz notes flying in bluesy dirvish but the song i heard *eyes closed* far exceeded this meagre score... instead... i gift a ticket concert for two *eyes closed* step inside 1 june 07 jlh |
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A title? You must pull something from the text, and hopefully the most important thing. You have to do that. You are the author. |
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Yes...but everyone needs help from time to time... |
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"but the song I heard" would be a good title. NR |
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Rosie, I like that title! It follows Pike's advice. |
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Concert For Two Eyes Closed |
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You must pull something from the text, and hopefully the most important thing...
I don't know, Pikes. Sometimes yes, but sometimes the title is between the lines of the text, implied by the text, or even from whence the text sprang. Sometimes it can be a play on words, or even something which has meaning only to the poem's author. At least so it seems to me. We do agree that Jen could better title her own poem than anyone else could.
I might title something like Jen wrote as More, or simply For You. |
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I heard several Blues singers in my mind as the poem came to light...I was curious I guess if anyone else got an impression of a person...but I didn't want to ask outright and force an answer that might not have come to your mind... Thanks for your input...you guys rock...  |
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Titles can be Romantic and descriptive, Enlightenment and thoughtfully direct and related, impressionistic and not necessarily even suggested directly in the body. They can be provocative. You could call the poem, Blue Diamond Almonds Whole Naturale, and drive people nuts trying to figure out the connection with nuts. |
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You could call it Step Outside, since the step inside is outside the frame. |
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Or titles can tell you what the poem means, if you don't get that from the poem itself. Titles can complete the poem. Here's an example I found in Richard Russo's "Bridge of Sighs," the novel I'm currently living in: He rose up on his dying bed
and asked for fish.
His wife looked it up in her dream book
and played it. Title that! It's a poem by Langston Hughes. Its title is "Hope." Beats me why, but in the novel people think the title explains the poem. |
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