This week, the chapter was all about interactive and kinetic poetry. This form of electronic literature has sparked the most interest for me. I have (slowly) grown to love poetry after years of resenting it in school. However, I was mostly reading classic sonnets and limericks, where syntax and word placement are the most defining traits. Kinetic and interactive poetry completely dissolve this, using motion and user engagement as the main traits. This form of digital literature CANNOT exist in print, which I also find interesting. Since this is a digital literature class, that is to be expected. However, in previous chapters, there is typically some form of print media that can be easily translated to print, like choose-your-own-adventure books. I also enjoy this form of poetry because it is a lot more tactile for the viewer. Poetry (typically) evokes lots of emotions, and when reading it through this digital literature lens, there are more avenues to harp on. This can be done through auditory, visual, and spatially. 

I chose to explore "in the white darkness" by Reiner Strassar. I first clicked on and "played" with no information. It was a bit difficult to understand, with sounds and pictures phasing in and out. After my first run through, I read more about it. It was created to simulate memory and its fragility. A lot of the photos are loosely related to eachother, with little to no "connecting" piece. This is bound to leave the reader confused. However, that is the intention. It was written to mirror a person living with Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease, with disappearing words and unclear meanings demonstrating memory lapses.