The article presents a comparative analysis of the titles of poetry books, literary cycles and poems by V.Brusov and A.Blok; it also reveals the linguistic parameters and expression of the titles, the
cultural background, the way to reflect the contents of the collection, literary cycles or a poem; through the difference of approaches to entitling their works the difference of the two poetic systems (“rise of symbolism” and “second generation” symbolism) is analyzed.