Dan Sheetz on Thu, 20 Dec 2001 23:40:03 +0100 (CET)


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[Nettime-bold] FW: <nettime> how do i know i am having a poem in cyberspace?


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> From: komninos zervos <k.zervos@mailbox.gu.edu.au>
> Reply-To: komninos zervos <k.zervos@mailbox.gu.edu.au>
> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:14:27 +1000
> To: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net
> Subject: <nettime> how do i know i am having a poem in cyberspace?
> 
> i need help.
> 
> i'm studying modes of recognition of poetry.
> 
> on the web, how do we recognize words used in language as poetry, how
> do we know we are having a poem? i mean before we start to interpret
> it or process it for meaning/feeling.
> 
> in print we see a visual pattern or arrangement, we see line lengths,
> we see indentations from the left margin and we visually recognize it
> as poetry, we see also phonological elements, rhyme, rhythms
> translated from oral culture, we then interpret what we read as
> poetry, or by the special rules of reading a text as belonging to a
> poetic discourse.
> 
> in live performance there are visual recognition stimuli; a spotlit
> area; a microphone; chairs arranged in a room pointing towards the
> performance area; a person holding an opened book or papers. There
> are definitely phonological signs we identify also; the poet's
> projected voice (not normal speaking voice); sound patterns (rhyme,
> rhythm, alliteration, assonance) being sounded, which we have learnt
> to recognize as poetry.
> 
> in web environments how do i tell if i've come across a poem? is it
> merely the same signs we use to recognize poetry in print and in live
> performance, or are there unique recognition stimuli for
> web/cyber/new/digital/hypermedia poetry?
> do we need visual evidence of text or aural presence of text to be
> poetry in this medium?
> 
> 
> i would appreciate some thoughts on this
> 
> cheers
> komninos
> -- 
> komninos zervos bsc(hons) ma(creative writing)
> http://www.gu.edu.au/ppages/K_Zervos
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