Meddle

[Erthona]

"I'm really thinking of revising the caps on every line, my intention was that every sentence was to make the reader dwell in every sentence..to take in what is between the words. Do you see what i mean?"

I understand what you mean, and I sympathize. I have looked a long time for a way to give weight to words so that they would be read like music without the tone...to no avail. The problem here is that there is a standard interpretation already in place for what capitols mean and when they start a line it means it is the start of a sentence. If you wish to make each line a sentence with a cap at the beginning and a period at the end, followed by a blank line this might work, however, when you use this with everything it means nothing. Only by using it selectively would it have the desired effect. You could also use italics, but if you used them with every line... Generally, either your reader will take time with your poem or they won't, regardless whatever typesetting tricks you try to use. Generally better writing will achieve this goal. Easier said that done, I know, but in poetry as well as any art form there are really no shortcuts. Here is a poem by Rumi that I have read meany times, and that is something I rarely do. It needs no extra spaces, or extra caps, et. al., for me to want to study it. You will notice that each line is a sentence.

“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.”

-Rumi

Thanks for your response,

Dale