Hey guys,
My last two posts I've put up some of my poems, but now that we're doing workshop I want to talk about something that I've been struggling with. How do you create titles for your poems? Sometimes, an idea will stick out to me, or other times I'll use a significant line from my poem, but often times I have trouble coming up with an idea so I usually leave them without titles. A lot of you seem to have a good grasp on it from seeing them during workshop so I guess I'm just looking for some help. You would think the title would be the least of your worries while writing, but it usually brings me the most stress! If anyone has any advice I would really appreciate it! I can't even think of what to title this blog as! Ugh. As an ending note, everyone has been writing really fantastic poems! Although I get very nervous when it's my turn for workshop, I love reading everyone else's poems! I enjoy reading a lot of them more than the poems we read from our book earlier in the semester!
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I leave a lot of my poems untitled as well. Sometimes I think the title weakens my writing because I struggle with it so much that I usually put something down in a haste, and I don't feel that it measures up to the poem. With some poems, a title sticks out to me and I feel like it's perfect, but with other poems, I think they're better left untitled.
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