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I don't see how that's relevant, as I was talking about the man, his actions, and the presumption of motive. Cummings disregarded capitalization norms in his p
by jshevek 7y ago
I don't see how that's relevant, as I was talking about the man, his actions, and the presumption of motive.
Cummings disregarded capitalization norms in his prose as well.
Edit: Maybe you meant: since Cummings wrote a lot of poetry, he is a special case and therefore can be forgiven for disregarding capitalization norms in his prose?
- bradknowles 7y agoIt's much more important the quality of the poetry he wrote than the quantity. I can write a program to generate thousands of haikus. Doing so does not make that body of poetry meaningful in any way [0]. [0] Well, other than the fact that it got me a free monogrammed PowerBook G4 Laptop sleeve that was being given away by some people who underestimated the willingness of a younger programmer to beseige them with computer-generated haikus. ;)
- jshevek 7y agoLet's keep this in context. Are you saying that Cummings did or did not 'apparently value being unique and "non rule following" over the comfort and ease of reading' ? Edit: Or maybe you are saying that we should only presume motive of people who don't write great works?