George
Isn't the problem that poetry is anyway hypertextual, containing
references, allusions, multiple meanings, non-poetic images, concealed
rhythms, not all of which are consciously put there by the poet, and
which the serious reader has to tease out, not by a single linear
reading, but by repeated and close study? And if you try to formalize
this by developing the hypertext poem in which every such nuance is
represented by a link the reader can follow, aren't you in danger of
destroying rather than enhancing the essential interplay between the
reader and the poem?
Just a thought.
Ted Slade
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