Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Why does Emily use unusual capitalization and punctuation?

from Emily Dickinson's poem Much Madness is divinest Sense

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Emily Dickinson uses a variety of what we would consider improper punctuation and capitalization. She does this to prove that good poetry doesn't necessarily have to be structured or exact, and also to make the reader stop and think.