I started this week's readings with some of the e-lit pieces and the three works (dear e.e, Cruising, and ii-in the white darkness) all had the same sort of vibe to them. It honestly took me a little bit to even be able and understand what I was reading or looking at. They are very interactive pieces and require a lot of precision with where you place your cursor. I feel like the piece “dear e.e” was the most emotional one to me. This is because it seemed to be the most chaotic one and hard to understand what you were reading. I was pretty confused and honestly still am when it comes to the reading content, but I feel like it doesn’t even matter because I felt so much just by trying to place my cursor in the right spots, etc. The ways that these works would speed up or slow down, zoom in and out, or just simply have no sense of direction was very intentional and meaningful to their overall messages. Even the use of sound was a big game changer. I feel like these works are all great examples of how the medium creates the metaphor. They are so full of feeling just by the ways that they are laid out on the screen (their medium). In Chapter 5 of the textbook I really enjoyed reading about all of the poetry and what you can do to make it a work of e-lit. I love poetry and literature so this was a very easy read for me. Interactive poetry is super interesting to learn and read about. This chapter was full of ways I didn’t even know could be added to poems, like the visuals and letterism. For the “bring it in” I wanted to reference one of the earlier poems that show ways to create interactive poems. “Easter Wings” by George Herbert was referenced in the Chapter as an example of concrete poetry. This was interesting to me because it was published in 1633 and was written in a way where the words are structured to create wings and look a certain way which adds to the symbolism of the title and poem overall.