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Unread 05-27-2021, 07:26 AM
mignon ledgard mignon ledgard is offline
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Default The thread on Emily Dickinson

I'm enjoying this thread and wish there were more illumination thrown in from those who know her work best.

However, this line gives me pause:

"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."--
Especially, the conclusion drawn: "Which means that she capitalized at whim." Even if it were true, it would still be a 'false' conclusion: a conjencture.

That she did not always capitalized does not 'mean' that she did so 'at whim.'

Come on, Tim! Numbers prove no such thing. I say this confidently because the same could be said of my poems, while I always have a reason when I do capitalize a common noun--not that I always wish to divulge it.

I'm beginning to think this is more like a truncated game for which rules and a board have not yet been procured.

Last edited by mignon ledgard; 05-27-2021 at 11:59 AM. Reason: a typo pulled me in.
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