"Visualizing" the work will entail adding HTML markup to the electronic text to create a visual environment that somehow--and here's where you'll each have to work hardest to conceptualize your individual project--performs an interpretation of the text.

The interpretation will involve more than simply adding pictures, backgrounds, or other superficial features. Nor does it mean writing critical commentary. Rather, you will each need to think about how the electronic space you are creating functions as an extension of the original text, simultaneously complicating and communicating its core themes.

Use the links above as the source for an electronic text of whichever work you choose (copy and paste into your HTML files). You must represent the entire text in the space of your project. But the text need not all be on the same page, or accessible in a linear fashion; for example, you may wish to use links to disperse the original text across a number of different lexias. Likewise, look at some of the animated poetry we've studied for ideas and inspiration.

Grades will be based upon the thoughtfullness and imaginative quality of the project; flashy design for its own sake will not be rewarded. If you have advanced Web design skills you are welcome to make use of them, but everyone is capable of earning an "A" using only the HTML I have taught in class. Like the still-life in classical painting, sometimes simple is best.

The project should be built in your WAM account. It should include a title page with a prose introduction (500 words minimum) that articulates a rationale for your visualization: explain the concept or strategy behind what you've done, and discuss how the process of visualizing (or you might think of it as performing) the text in HTML has changed the way you've thought about it. Please also be sure to inlcude your name and an email link, as well as a link to the course homepage. Mail me the link when you're ready for me to evaluate it.

All projects will be linked and publicly accessible from this page.