Working with Lists

Question

  public static List<SelectListItem> Title()

        {

            List<SelectListItem> items = new List<SelectListItem>();

            items.Add(new SelectListItem { Text = "MR", Value = "" });

            items.Add(new SelectListItem { Text = "MRS", Value = "" });

            return items;

        }

Please in the above code. Is there any possible way to automatically populate the value with the the vallue of the Text. Thanks