Letting the tool write the poem

[billy]

unless they're pre 1900 they do the same for me, but because it's a personal tchoice and not writ' in stone i try and ignore the fact, i do see how it pisses tom off no-end

Okay, guess I just get frustrated when I'm trying to make sense of something and the caps just make it harder and the poet doesn't seem to think that matters.


Those old men got away with a lot in the old days, but there was often at least a form for guidance. Now, if it's the poets choice for a reason that's one thing, even if that choice is made just to follow older tradition, but when someone claims to be cutting edge maybe they should think about it a bit.

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as i said most newbs do it, so i tend to just ignore it i the hope they change their habit. it's same with minimal or zero punctuation; they see others do it and think coooal, sadly the don't see that in others work it might be done well enough to work and all they produce is gibberish.

I do the same thing! It gets me every time, sadly. Every single time. I even get angry with myself for checking sometimes.

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I never seem to notice in older peons. .. poems I mean I mean poem s

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pinsky does it and I never seem to notice with him either. tons of poems I love do it. milos friend dmh did it. But for some strange reason if I see it on crit boards I most likely won't even read it.

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Probably because thee and thou are constantly found in them

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i hate typing on the ipad or any other tablet at the best of times.

Sure, there will always be tools involved in any endeavor, but I'm talking about devices.

My guess is that whoever sets the default to capitalizing the first word of each line writes a lot of to-do lists and one line texts. One tap turns it off, and I would think that anyone who thinks about words enough to write a poem and post it would want to control which words are capitalized.

Though, f your keyboard s m ss ng the I or a staple s crammed underneath t, that can be forg ven.

Rant over.

Ipads automatically capitalize the first line of every row of text
And
You cant
Turn it off.

I think its silly to complain about this, really. Its not an excuse, of course. When I'm writing poetry, I want to get the words down as quick as possible before they disappear.


Its funny that
The ipad automatically
Capitalizes every
Line, but
When i type i
It doesn't capitalize the letter i.

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Older poems came out before ipads became so prevelant.