vForums Support :: General :: General :: Hypertextual Poetry - View Topic Topic Rating: Printable View Paddy Full Member Insane Clown Posts: 288 Status: Offline Gender: Male Location: Buffalo, New York Age: 35 Joined:   Reputation: 7%   pmwwwtwitterskypeaimgtalk Hypertextual Poetry (18th Mar 08 at 1:54pm UTC) Poetry with too much caffeine Has anybody ever written or read good hypertextual poetry? It's a really cool concept. Basically, it plays off the idea that the "author is dead" - the author doesn't have the authority in texts anymore. The reader and author share this authority. Hypertextual poetry plays with this authority by shoving it more on the reader; the author creates parts of a poem, and links them together through connecters, generally links. The final poem the reader ends up with is what the reader has built from the links they've chosen to click. The reader creates their own connections based on the limits the authors provide, and come up with unique thoughts/ideas in the process. It's really quite cool. Here's the one I did for my ETS 142 class: http://musings.ithoughtit.org ~Artemis Back to Top - Link to Post Marc vChat Developer I <3 Rossy Posts: 3,388 Status: Offline Gender: Male Location: Ontario, Canada Age: 33 Joined:   Additional Groups: Coding Team Reputation: 40%   pmwww Re: Hypertextual Poetry (18th Mar 08 at 8:31pm UTC) Sounds like a cool idea, but I just tried that and the poem came out as nonsense, and ended after the third click on a page of symbols with no link. This reminds me of "Circle Poetry", where people sit in a circle and write one line, move to the next poem, add one line on, and so on and so forth. Back to Top - Link to Post rroll.to— Shorten a link, rickroll your friends. Paddy Full Member Insane Clown Posts: 288 Status: Offline Gender: Male Location: Buffalo, New York Age: 35 Joined:   Reputation: 7%   pmwwwtwitterskypeaimgtalk Re: Hypertextual Poetry (18th Mar 08 at 9:42pm UTC) Why must the poem be in the words? The poem is in the connections. ~Artemis Back to Top - Link to Post Tim Senior Member banned. The only easy day was yesterday. Posts: 698 Status: Offline Gender: Male Location: Under your bed..in your closet..in your head Age: 34 Joined:   Reputation: 4%   pmmsn Re: Hypertextual Poetry (19th Mar 08 at 6:28am UTC) Good idea Arty. Back to Top - Link to Post My Playlist | Ask Me Anything   Printable View Choose SkinOriginalslip.wr.blu

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