The title of this my blog does not necessarily refer to any specific poem, since poetry is unfortunately rather insignificant in terms of my repertoire of literature. However I do find it rather clever, despite that I invented it by retrieving a thesaurus and locating words synonymous with "response" and "poetry."
To fully understand it, however, you must first understand responsory music.
Responsory music is a form of choir singing where a single or small group of chorists sing a verse and the rest of the choir or large group responds with a refrain or chorus. This must be understood because the first part of my title, "Antiphon", refers to the refrain or response of the majority of the chorus in responsory music.
However, the word antiphon can be adapted (if the Online Free Dictionary is to be believed) to mean "response." Thus, we understand the first part of my title to mean response.
The latter piece is rather simple. Since poems often must rhyme, and rhyming words seems to take a dominant role in poetry, I utilized "Rhyme" instead of poetry to add a bit more variety to my word choice. Also "Antiphon of Rhyme" sounds far more intriguing than "Antiphon to Poetry," I think.
I love the creativity behind your title and appreciate that you recognize the importance of audience! You will have the opportunity to craft some poetry later this week.
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