Maybe, as an ironic device, it was conventional to have a post-title at the
bottom of the poem, such as in more sophisticated circumstances, the poet
would write additional poem written as a commentary on the poem, a kind of
reflexive device, which may also be given a title at the bottom of the
original poem. Such a poem might be done in italic, or different color ink.
There is a work of Jack Spicer that - at the moment I am forgetting the name
of that book
As an aside, I sometimes wonder, differently than an additional or
alternative title "au pied" , if the "footnote" as a term had its origins
not in the spatial location of being an explanatory or scholarly note at the
foot of the page, but "foot" in the sense of being a note(s) on the 'feet'
in the metric/prosodic sense. That these 'foot notes' on at the bottom of
the page were originally a reflection on the use and implications of a
particular prosody, its use of the the poetic foot. To take it further, the
"footnotes" in Classical Greece may well have been performance instructions
to the dancers in performance with the poet or chorus reciting the poems.
Stephen V
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> On Nov 19, 2006, at 11:47 AM, Jon Corelis wrote:
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>> Is there such a thing as a title that comes after the poem?
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