| = Capitalization | ofelia apostol [05.Sep.11 17:36] |
| Why did you capitalize some of the words? | |
| = Reasons | Sârb Olimpia [08.Sep.11 23:46] |
| I did it on purpose. Sometimes I feel helpless when trying to give words extra powers, when I feel like highlighting their significance. It is my poor language that makes me appeal to such strategies like capitalizing. I am a poor writer, I may say, but great names used this way of writing long before... e.g. "Surely some revelation is at hand;/Surely the Second Coming is at hand."(William Butler Yeats/ The Second Coming), or: "Thrice welcome, Darling of the Spring!/Even yet thou art to me/ No Bird; but an invisible Thing./ A voice, a mystery." (William Wordsworth/ To the Cuckoo) or:"Winds contend/Silently there, and heap the snow with breath/ Rapid and strong, but silently! Its home/ The voiceless lightning in these solitudes/ Keeps innocently, and like vapour broods/ Over the snow.The secret Strength of things/ Which governs thought..." (Percy Bysshe Shelley/ Mont Blanc)or: "The image of Eternity - the throne / Of the Invisible;..." (George Gordon Byron/ Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Canto IV)or: "Ah! well a day!what evil looks/ Had I from old and young!/ Instead of the Cross, the Albatross/ About my neck was hung." etc etc. Thanks a lot for paying attention. Sincerely, yours. | |