Commas and Poetry

I think commas have been very lucky in today's poetry. It seems that other punctuation has been either abandoned or severely reduced. Yet the comma remains.

The period is often omitted due to its ominous finality. Language with periods is neither nuanced nor particularly intelligent. Language with commas is open to interpretation. Language with commas can hold multiple ideas in the same thought. We don't often speak out loud in periods anymore.

Capitalization has also received a major blow in that it is no longer really quite comfortable to include capital letters in a familiar or politically undersurging poetry. Language with capital letters almost seems authoritarian. Language without them is inviting the reader to decide which words are the most important. The little I is indicative of a non-threatening author. An entire line of little letters is aesthetically more pleasing than a line with the occasional mutant capital.

On the internet a string of all capital letters indicate shouting. By the inverse logic a passage neglecting to capitalize anything could almost be construed as a whisper.