Post by Adalie Bates on Feb 2, 2010 21:17:09 GMT -4
As you may have noticed, there is usually something in parentheses at the end of every poem's title. Why is it there? What does it mean? What parentheses?
Well first of all it would probably look like this.
"True Love? (O : journ: NF)"
Now lets dissect this to see what it means.
True Love? (O : journ: NF)
This would be the actual title of the poem or short story that you are reading.
The letters and symbols inside of these parentheses would be how the poem you are reading is classified.
This is how old or new the poem is. Basically an "O" would mean it is old and a "N" would mean that it is new.
This is a short explantion of why a poem or short story was written. Here are some examples.
me - Well I wrote it for my own pleasure. Maybe I needed to vent, maybe I was extremely bored, or maybe I just got inspired.
journ- I wrote this a LONG time ago and found it inside one of my various journals that was lying around.
d@ - I wrote this as Dapplednight for the Cats of Midnight, Howling Forest, etc. I may have also written this for some other role play that I used to belong to.
eng - I wrote this for English class as an assignment.
This means that when I came to classify these poems it was not finished.
NF - This stands for never finished and it also means that I will probably never finish it. I may have lost interest or I just could never find the perfect ending.
F - This means that I finished it months later, but that the last few stanzas did not originally go with the poem.