There six types of interaction for the reader to be involved in, in this e-poetry poem. The first step is getting into the poem, and all you have to do is hit the word “LANDSCAPES” in the middle of the first page. Once you do this it then leads you to another page, Desert Drive in, starting off to where the poem begins. Or there is another way; you can just be able to click on the words on the left hand side of that page. Once you get to that page you are able to read the words that are passing by as well as look at the four different pictures represented a dive-in movie. You know to click on this because when your mouse is overlapping the icons it then turns from the color green to yellow. While you press the buttons on the left hand side of the page it will lead you to the different parts of the poem, where it explains what is going on and what is being said.
On the left side of the page there are five icons giving you places in the poem to go and listen to what the author has to say. There is: Desert Drive in, Variation on a Summer Theme, City by Moonlight, flags waving over a capitol, and Fog at Sunrise. When you click on one of these icons it then brings you to a separate page that is very colorful and has two sets of words that make a part of the poem. In Desert Drive in, it said: “I do not hide my face, and from the spitting insult.” But this becomes hard to read because the words are passing you by very quickly. There are other types of readings that are happening in the other icons but you must press them in order to see, if you do not click the icons then the interaction of the poem will not keep happening.
The next icon for this poem was Variation of a Summer Theme, in this image there are different types of pictures that are flashing when the page is up. The pictures all seem to represent the summer with the flowers along with happy children. The words on this page reads, “I have set my face like flint and I know that I shall not be put to shame.” Each of these sayings are talking about standing up for yourself and not letting anyone walk over you because you were hiding.
City by Moonlight and Flags waving over Capital are both similar. They both have images involving the cities and people who are in them. In the Moonlight image there are pictures of empty chairs and then someone holding a hand full of sand and letting it slip through their fingers. The captions or words used in this picture said, “I am not afraid of 10 thousands of people who have sent themselves against me.” This saying corresponds with the words because there are empty chairs and then someone who is standing by themselves or another picture shows a man walking, representing that they will stick up for themselves and that they are not afraid to be alone. The Flags waving over the Capital have people who look like they are in soldier’s outfits. The words say, “I will protect him because he knows my name, I will answer him when he calls to me.” And that is exactly what soldiers do when they are listening to their captain. There are two sets of different images, one showing the soldiers, who look like they are in a form to attack and the others look like people who are rioting the city.
The last section in this poem was Fog at Sunrise; you are able to look at this when you clicked that icon on the right side of the page. When you click on this icon you see one box for the image and it shows a car, band, and a television. And the saying says: I will bring them back from the depths of the sea. And the background image shows the sunset and a body of water, where they could bring them back.
In Landscapes many readers may think that it would be easy to read and to understand as well as interact with it, the only difficultly that could be found was reading the words to the poem. Because the poem’s words were passing by the page with small pillars in the middle, it then became difficult to read as well as understand.
In this poem there are many elements that were occurring, one main element was Symbiociation. This word tells me that there were a lot of symbols and tools that the author had used to make the reader understand what was going on in this poem. There was also Digital Poetry, which means that there were visuals and animations that were used within the poem. All of these elements were very important for the author to use to help the reader understand what he was trying to say. One last element used was Causing thinking, because you were not able to really see the words clearly, that made the reader/user think about what the author was trying to say and interpret with the pictures about what is going on.
Many readers/users may believe that the elements used were rather helpful with understanding the piece. Without the symbiociation then there would not have been a lot of interesting diagrams and/or symbols that would have been used. And if this author did not use Digital Poetry then there would have been no images, and the piece would have been rather dull. Some reader/users, may believe that causing thinking may have been extraneous in this piece because it became very difficult to understand the word of the poem and try to get and insight for what was being said.
If this piece had been written on paper rather than electronic poetry, then readers/users may not think that it would have been very intriguing. Without the pictures, the words would not have meant what they had in this form. When you were reading the words along with the pictures, the reader was then able to understand what the author was trying to say a little better. With that being said, electronic poetry was the best way to form this poem, it may have been a little difficult to read at times, but that difficulty is what drives people in to read it. I personally liked the electronic version of this poem.
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Housing Problems, a poem that was written by Roxanne Carter, starts off looking like a title to an article. When the user/reader clicks on HOUSING PROBLEMS by ROXANNE CARTER with your mouse, it will then direct you to another page where the poem actually begins. When you click on this icon, make sure that your computer will allow pop up and that you have Quick player. If you do not allow these options to happen, your full experience of this poem will not work.
When you get to this page, it does not look like a regular beginning to a poem. There will be 18 different pictures of women with houses in the background. Each box is separated from a thin white line that travels between the images of the pictures. Each of these women seems to portray a different facial expression as well as a different dark house in each of the backgrounds.
Once you look at all of the pictures, then the poem will become interactive with the user/reader. Click any of the pictures there, isn’t any real order, and when you do click, then a variety of options will happen. In some of the icons some of the elements in the piece would be a video, a story line, different windows with sayings, some words may be underlined, and when you click these words then a new element in the story will pop up. There is also, scattered dialogue, make your own poem, and some elements have 2 videos in one different window. No matter which video you choose, the poem is going to be intriguing and keep you lingering to find out what is really going on.
When you put your mouse over the first image and click the picture you will then be able the beginning of the poem. It starts off with a word saying en route, and then it turns into a video of a woman on the phone trying to dial a number. The woman goes on for about a minute and a half trying to dial a number and different phones were used.
An example of words that are underlined could be in the second picture. Click on it and then you will see two distinct boxes, one on the left and another on the right. In these boxes, words are cursing down the page, and when you see all of these words there a distinct ones that are underlined. When you click on these, then you will be able to see another window and look at another part of the poem.
When you click the fifth picture in, there will be six icon/pictures that will pop up. Many different categories will appear, a main one used will be animals. Roxanne uses many types of animals in this section as well as other factors. There are also words that say billiard room, or ball room, indicating different places in the house. For example, fireplace mantel, or even marble floor. Each of these are used to show the different types of categories these women fall on to.
When you click on the seventh picture you will be able to make your own poem or saying. There are seven different cursers in this element, and here you will be able to pick many different options. Under each of the seven categories there are words that can be used, when you use them you are able pull down on the white words that say, item lost in the fire, the three lies, library, treasure, the three secrets, tableware, and rules. I made my own and the image is below. This is a great interaction area for the reader or user because then you are able to create your own thoughts or feelings within the section of the poem and show where you want or think it should head to.
There are many more example, but I selected the most common of the 18 pictures that I saw. Some other elements in this poem included, conversations that the people had, pictures of women in houses, or with lights, and stories about a girl that lived in the house. All of these images are elements that made this poem come to life.
There are plenty of ways the reader/user can interact in this poem, and finding out how to interact was not very difficult. There are clues hidden within the poem, one being when you dragged the mouse over an object it will turn a different color then before, or there are words that are underlined where you click and they will bring you to a different element within the poem. Without this contact within the poem, I believe that this poem would not be where it is at now. All of this interaction is used so that you are able to click different parts of the story and learn them on your own and drawing your own conclusions.
This poem had everything that an e-poetry poem could have. It had all of the images, the multi-dimensions, sensory information that could convey a message to the reader. There were many; Poetry in Images, (a section that we had learned in class). This is where images and text merge together to form new vistas of meaning. When saying this, that is exactly what Roxanne had done, she had put all of these elements together to form one big poem and one big meaning. There were parts that would be called (Turning away), this is where lines change, into new lines. And in some of the examples that I talked about this is exactly what happened. Many words were going together in order to make up the element in the picture. There were many animations where you could see black and white videos, like it was in the olden days that showed you what type of house this could be or what the house had seen throughout the years. Finally there was a ton of symbiociation; elements, movement and navigation. This poem had everything giving us the total effect.
In order for the reader/user to get the full effect of this poem, the most essential element needed for this peace would be Symbiociation. When having this there is navigation, which was defiantly needed, animations that were a lot throughout the piece, and there were movements through every segment. Without this element the poem would have probably not been able to have everything, like it did. Something that may have seemed extraneous would have been the Turning away element, because it was very hard to see and grasp everything the author may have wanted to understand because the words were always moving or turning into new lines.
The user/reader would lose everything if the author just had this on paper. The whole dimensional volume and all of the elements combined is an essential part of this entire poem, without it the user/reader may not be able to understand and comprehend everything that there is to tell. You gain so much more with e-poetry because then you are able to interact with it and see pictures and visuals(videos) that may help you understand exactly what the reader is trying to say. I would defiantly like reading this poem electronically rather than on paper because you are able to have different choices and ideas. And with a paper based poem, it doesn’t give you the full extent of what this poem had given you.
You chose two interesting pieces. Thanks for sharing them.
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