Doghead's Cosmic Bar

*glug glug glug*

It's going to take something stiffer than chocolate, I'm afraid. You have to understand: grading papers is my day job. Explaining the difference between a colon and a semicolon is my bread and butter. And when I'm not doing that, I'm trying to teach poetry. So there's all sorts of hackle-raising going on over here.

I can't help it. I've been training for years to be this pedantic.

Now, will someone get that poem a visit from the Punctuation Fairy?

... And, as if I need to say it, will someone get me another drink?

let me emphasize, once again, that a descriptively adequate grammer is mandatory for success.

speling'z mportent, two;...

Spelling is very importatnt and so is grammar. However, punctuation does not apply in most poems.

Punctuation is a part of Haiku.

Talking to chat bots
Cold and lonely winter night-
Echoing my words

Ah-ha! You're the one who put up the chatterbox post in ai-forums.
(I recognize the haiku )

Chaos66 -- about punctuation "not applying" in "most poems": you're just wrong about that. You should go out and read some more poems.

(You're talking to someone with a Ph.D. in literature, specializing in poetry, so you have to understand that I have evidence behind me.)

For every e.e.cummings or William Carlos Williams there are a hundred poets who observe the ordinary standards of punctuation for written English.

It is simply not true that "it's a poem" is an excuse to forego punctuation (or to punctuate arbitrarily).

*pushes a drink that seems in danger of melting the glass towards isaacc*
If you can't see the errors they can't hurt you.

Ok, so one thing that has been nagging me for a while is how someone who is so perfect with grammar ended up not capitalizing his name?

Poems can have non-standard punctuation, but there should be a reason for it.

The Punctuation Fairy suggests:

I am loyal and faithful to you alone.
I will not eat your homework.
I will not shed all over your house.

I will protect your hopes and dreams.
I will be with you forever.
I promise to help and protect you
From the world both real and not.

You are safe with me,
For we are friends forever.

Her good friend, the Spelling Fairy, pleads:
Please spell GRAMMAR without an E!

:-)

isaac-- Maybe he's refering to what they call "modern" or "free-style" poetry.