04-28-2024, 12:35 PM
Hello again TqB,
Hmmm. "Beside the Creek" has a nice ring to it, but I feel like it might not be relevant enough to the entire poem. Certainly the speaker is thinking of his time "beside the creek" through much of the poem, but there's a lot of other stuff going on that I don't think quite connects.
Something along those lines will join my considerations, but I'm still inclined toward something about the "fat of the land". The only reason I'm hung up on that particular idea is that the bitterness and regret in the poem is expressed towards the unfortunate loss of their opportunity to have self-sufficiency and "live off the fat of the land". At the same time, I don't love the idea of using the same words in my title that I use in the first couplet.
How about similar ideas: "milk and honey" or maybe something like "the promised land"? Now I'm on kind of a biblical bent with these titles because it fits Steinbeck's writing and the story of OM&M specifically.
Sample titles, more conceptual than anything at the moment:
"Milk & Honey" Too plain and simple? Maybe that's not a bad thing.
"Lost Milk & Honey" maybe a little too blatant and awkward
"Wandering in Wilderness" probably too trite
"A Promised Land" eh?
"Milk and Honey 2: Revenge of the Cow" yes
Do any of these sound good?
best,
aac
Hmmm. "Beside the Creek" has a nice ring to it, but I feel like it might not be relevant enough to the entire poem. Certainly the speaker is thinking of his time "beside the creek" through much of the poem, but there's a lot of other stuff going on that I don't think quite connects.
Something along those lines will join my considerations, but I'm still inclined toward something about the "fat of the land". The only reason I'm hung up on that particular idea is that the bitterness and regret in the poem is expressed towards the unfortunate loss of their opportunity to have self-sufficiency and "live off the fat of the land". At the same time, I don't love the idea of using the same words in my title that I use in the first couplet.
How about similar ideas: "milk and honey" or maybe something like "the promised land"? Now I'm on kind of a biblical bent with these titles because it fits Steinbeck's writing and the story of OM&M specifically.
Sample titles, more conceptual than anything at the moment:
"Milk & Honey" Too plain and simple? Maybe that's not a bad thing.
"Lost Milk & Honey" maybe a little too blatant and awkward
"Wandering in Wilderness" probably too trite
"A Promised Land" eh?
"Milk and Honey 2: Revenge of the Cow" yes
Do any of these sound good?
best,
aac