Kinetic and Interactive Poetry

    Chapter 5 describes and explains that digital kinetic poetry “…provides text as time-based moving image, often with a sound dimension, and is often interactive and responsive as well,” (Rettberg, 314) and all of the other ways in which poetry can be shared. I loved when Rettberg listed about all the ways that words can be presented shortly after that quote, giving the reader a better understanding of how limitless the visual aspect of this poetry can be. This chapter was broken up nicely as well, I found it to be easier to understand than some pervious chapters. Having it divided between the different types of poetry made each section easier to comprehend and singe out, allowing for nothing to accidentally overlap in my mind when learning about so many different types of poetry in such a condensed chapter. 

    I really enjoyed “ii in the white darkness” by Reiner Strasser & M.D. Coverly. I thought that this hypertext was very engaging for how beautiful it was. The collection of pictures were all very lovely, and the simple sentences added a lot to the piece. The sentences were thought-provoking and powerful in making the reader question themselves. The pictures were all aesthetically pleasing, and weren’t too busy for it to be overwhelming. I loved clicking on all of the dots and viewing the ways in which the pictures would appear on the screen, with some fading and disappearing in fun ways. This was my favorite out of the five hypertext provided for class on Tuesday, I found it to be the most inviting and visually pleasant piece of digital literature.

I chose “slippingglipmse” by Stephanie Strickland and Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo for this week’s discussion. It was very different than “ii in the white darkness” in its delivery of words. This kinetic poem was cluttered, and had so much going on at once that I could read the words that I would be staring at. They were moving quickly and swirled between each other, making it nearly impossible to be able to read anything that was provided. It wasn’t well executed and I became increasingly frustrated with not being able to read the text, and because of the video being so low quality that it was hard to enjoy what you were looking at even beyond what you were trying to read. 

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