This site is designed using the CommentPress format which allows annotations and comments of the essay. I have used the comment function to create different types of analysis. For example, “To Come After a Sonnet” is analyzed through juxtaposed readings. Comments are titled READING A and READING B to differentiate the two perspectives. (My use of the form as a mode of analysis is further elaborated on in the Introduction).
To access the comments, click the small number on the left hand side of the text, the speech bubble on the right hand side of the text or select a paragraph from the scroll bar on the right hand side of the screen. This action will allow you to read comments that were made on specific paragraphs. Once in the scrollbar, you can add your comment (which is very welcome!). Do not worry if your comment does not appear immediately; it must be approved by me before becoming visible on the site. I will approve all comments that are not spam.
The site is designed to let you navigate freely between poems and comments. However, the Introduction provides the framework for the essay, so it was written to be read before the exploration of the poems.
Please feel free to ask any questions via comment about the use of the essay.
Click here to read the Introduction.
Click here to access the Works Cited
Click here to read the Acknowledgements
What a fine essay on three early Moore poems. The Bryn Mawr insider view is very helpful to the interpretation, particularly of “To My Cup-Bearer.” I will try to link it to my Moore blog http://www.moore123.wordpress.com.
Many scholars are beginning to explore born-digital modes of argument — indeed, what forms they might take are a matter of some excitement and urgency and doubt for many of us. In this web-essay I see a modest but compelling exploration of form, argument, evidence and interaction — with similar animating interests as grander experiments, such as those currently being pursued by the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture. How do the diverse paths readers pursue through hyperlinked spaces (like the ones in this site) add up? Do they add up in the same way that successive readings of a linear argument would add up? How does it it change our modes of argument when our evidence, like these poems, sits closely alongside analysis instead of being pointed to, referenced at a distance? I suspect scholars will be grappling with questions like these for some time. As we do so, it’s urgent that we explore the different tools that are available even though (as Richard Lanham would remind us) they always lag behind our needs of them.
I am grateful that emerging scholars like you are willing to take risks and experiment in such a serious, purposeful way.