Quick Question

[browngirl]

What's the better title: A Certain Star or The Star That Dartles?
(Title Character/protagonist is Kory aka Starfire.)

Comments

[frodobaggins252.livejournal.com]

If you're specifically going to the reference to Robert Browning's
My Star"*, go with "The Star That Dartles" -- otherwise, I think you might confuse people with a term that's not in common usage. "A Certain Star" works nicely and can be a touchstone for the character as well as for a locale or situation.


*Just to avoid people needing to ask, here's the poem:

My Star by Robert Browning



All, that I know
Of a certain star
Is, it can throw
(Like the angled spar)
Now a dart of red,
Now a dart of blue
Till my friends have said
They would fain see, too,
My star that dartles the red and the blue!
Then it stops like a bird; like a flower, hangs furled:
They must solace themselves with the Saturn above it.
What matter to me if their star is a world?
Mine has opened its soul to me; therefore I love it.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

*grin* Thank you for posting the poem, which has been one of my favorites all my life. Yeah, I was thinking of it here as my title source.