Naming Poems

[LadynStFreknBed]

Did anyone else ever have a mental block when trying to name a sonnet (or any other poem)? I think I iambicly fried my brain.

 

[Eluard]

I once had so much trouble naming a poem I eventually just titled the damned thing "Untitled".

But usually for me the name comes first.

 

[sophieloves]

not really done the naming thing yet, lol. written a couple of bits as replies and i don't think they had titles. and just posted my one for the challenge, so i didn't have to choose a title for that. how do you guys normally go about choosing your titles?

 

[Lauren Hynde]

The title of any poem either doesn't exist or is part of the poem. (I don't mean it's extracted from the body of text, but that it is a part of the poem, another line.) So, in a way, that's like asking if I have a block when writing the 14th line of a sonnet, or if I have a block when writing the 1st line of any poem. Those are the three more important isolated lines in a sonnet, but they're not isolated lines. They're part of a whole. If I'm having a block with one of them, then odds are I'm having a much bigger problem with writing the poem as a whole.

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

Usually, the name is absolutely obvious to me. I generally think of the title while I'm writing the poem. I think that's my problem with naming this sonnet. It's really my first attempt at a sonnet. While I was writing it, I was concentrating on saying what I want to say while following the form.

Last night, I took it with me to the writing group I go to. The sonnet is true to the form, which is what I asked the poets there. It just needs a title! LOL

 

[miss_mystery]

You could always just call it 'Sonnet #1'. That is, assuming that you'll write more of them.
I often just try to sum up, in one word or concise phrase, what the poem's supposed to be about.

 

[beautyandwine]

Heh, yes. The title always comes last for me. And by the time I'm done with a sonnet, it's usually just the topic + sonnet + number. I have Depression Sonnet #3 and Erotic Sonnet #7, etc.

 

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