为什么有些英语诗歌中不是专有名词确要大写，如Directly in the Forehead或Adjusts itself to Midnight,

Emily Dickinson

We grow accustomed to the Dark—

When light is put away—

As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp

To witness her Goodbye—

A Moment—We uncertain step

For newness of the night—

Then—fit our Vision to the Dark—

And meet the Road—erect—

And so of larger—Darkness—

Those Evenings of the Brain—

When not a Moon disclose a sign—

Or Star—come out—within—

The Bravest—grope a little—

And sometimes hit a Tree

Directly in the Forehead—

But as they learn to see—

Either the Darkness alters—

Or something in the sight

Adjusts itself to Midnight—

And Life steps almost straight.

在艾米莉·狄金森的这首诗歌中，除了每行的第一个词大写外，不是专有名词的也大写，其主要目的，根据学者们的意见，一般是为了强调所指而非实指，即是Dark 而不是简单意义上的dark.("Dark" with a capital D is perhaps a device to direct readers to separate "dark" from "Dark" in the following lines)

Lamp，Road等均如是。

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一般没有很多诗人采用此格式。而且，

狄金森的诗采用一般教会赞美诗的格律：每节四句，第一、三句八音节，第二、四句六音节，音步是最简单的“轻、重”，第二、四句押韵。

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常交流，呵呵