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Unread 05-26-2021, 08:50 PM
Tim McGrath Tim McGrath is offline
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As someone who was practiced in the art of self-denial, Dickinson was capable of intentionally sabotaging her poems.

Some overreaching Dickinson scholars find meaning in whether one of her dashes is slanted up or down. If a dash is meant to be a pause, then it disrupts the 4/3 meter that Dickinson so loved.

Statistically, her capitalizations are randomly distributed. Take, for example, the word "night." She uses it 150 times and capitalizes it 60. Which means that she capitalized at whim.

A poem is not a visual production. A poem, like a mathematical object, exists in a realm beyond the paper it is printed on.

Yes, I am a Platonist.

Last edited by Tim McGrath; 05-26-2021 at 09:18 PM.
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