What are your thoughts on capitalization in poetry?

It's best to alternate between the two for each sentence.

It gives me a surprise when I wake up lol

>>9980927
The best way to do it is 2 just B urself

>>9980945
Please friend

>>9980927
It's idiotic. Morons like Rupi Kaur and the tumblr-poet generation she embodies like to leave out capitalization and other core grammatical, not for any deep reason but because it *seems* like it should have a deep reason. It's the laziest possible convention breaking by people who don't understand why conventions exist in the first place.

>>9981031
core grammatical structures*

>>9981031
I concur. It seems to be over-hyped as revolutionary, while it appears to pointlessly defy correct grammar. I don't understand why exactly it became so appealing since around the mid-20th century. Nevertheless, in college, I was still permitted to use the capitalization I prefer.

It depends on the poem.

>americans

>>9980927
the actual method behind it that you find in the modernists like Pound or H. D. is how the poem is to be read, the accents of the flow of the thing and where specific lines of thought or images should end and resume.
Dumbasses today just do it because it makes it seem "poetical" and the academics are just mindless victims of fashion trying to keep up with the current trends that all the publishing companies that they are sucking up to are shitting out.
Just like everything else in poetry, if you understand why you are doing something and can explain the reason for it, and if that reason makes sense or adds to the art, then do it. If not, then it's just hollow posturing. Modern poetry completely lacks in discipline and comprehension of the art form and the trend of not capitalizing each line is just lazy indulgence of cheap and cheerful composition.

>>9980927
Nigga Do I Look Like I Care?

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Yeah depends on the poem, more casually driven stuff I'd say generally shouldn't have a capital letter starting each line but more elevated stuff generally should. I always find that a capital at the beginning of a line makes me pause for slightly longer than no capital at the beginning of a line. A line also bears much more weight on its own if it starts with a capital (but obviously has to earn that, otherwise it's just masquerading as a comparatively weightier line)

>>9981031
>>9981404
>spelling is grammar
>capitalizing words in the beginning of every line regardless of sentence structure is especially grammatical

Who gives a shit

>>9981031
Capitalisation is near-useless and is only used due to English being deficient in its specificity. All lowercase results in a superior aesthetic and sacrifices nothing except for a disgusting, ham-fisted trend.

>>9982792
you didn't attend school

It has its place, even though retards like
>>9981031
disagree. I tend to use fairly standard grammar in my writing, but poetry playing with grammar/syntax/styling is important to the form. Basically
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>>9980927
>Who today is a successful and critically acclaimed poet that still habitually capitalizes the first letter of every line?
Charles Simic published a new book of poetry this year and he capitalizes the first word of each line.

>>9981785
This post captures the essence, I think. A good artist does as little as possible without reason. Capitalize because you need it, write lowercase because you need it.