Edge

The biggest element that I receive from the online poetry is that there’s a holistic feeling. I find it hard to pick out the deeper elements or breadk down the message that is being conveyed. They are encouraging in that they invoke a desire to understand, however the path that is then followed is a circle because they also discourage when frustration sets in from being lost when searching for this meaning. The intention always seems hidden. Perhaps this is the author’s intent?

Some of these are to be taken in differently in terms of level of seriousness (like the “game” style version), though the distinction is not clear when the focus is not in sight. The interactivity encourages the idea that the reader is within their realm and the connection is reaching out to the reader, but then it is not close enough to fully grasp. Again, the mysterious element finds its way back in.

Another piece to this that makes it personally difficult to read or connect to is that it is not conventional poetry, so there are no “rules” how to read it. The always changing images make it hard to interpret, when the interpretation is loose enough already. An analysis varies from one person to the next, with all these different words that are seemingly random, it’s even harder to find a connection between what one individual sees as opposed to another. This technology element is a throw off, and it can’t help but feel as though it isn’t necessary, and newer isn’t always better.

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