This poem “Firefly” has touched me in that the way this poem is mind-blowing. Deena Larsen unique way of putting words and phrases together is a true work of art. It’s funny because when I first read this poem, I couldn’t really grasp the reason behind the words in the poem such as green light and flashing quiet glows because I did not know anything about a firefly. After doing research, I came to find out that a firefly is the same thing as a “lightning bug”. When I came to the solution to my confusion about what a firefly was, I began to fully understand the poem and really get into the poem. Because before I did not know about fireflies, it just seemed like a bunch of words put together that had no real meaning or purpose, like the words were randomly put together. This relates to a lot of the problems I have with a lot of poems and stories. I see a word that I do not understand or comprehend and I tend to just be reading letters and words rather than getting into the story and what the author is trying to get across.
After
I knew that a firefly was a
lightning bug, I read the poem over again and the poem made sense to
me, but I
still had a question. The question that
came about was I read this poem twice and I still can’t seem to find
out why
the number 180 was being used in the beginning of the poem when it came
to the
degrees of separation. I began to think
and dwell on what was the reason for the number of 180 being used. I kept looking at the description of the poem
on the right side of the hypertext that this story was comprised of 6 stanzas,
each five lines long, and six lines deep.
This made my mind go in circles.
It took me forever to come up with the fact that 6 multiplied by
5
equals 30 and 30 multiplied by 6 equals 180.
After I figured this out, I began to look into the meaning
behind “six
lines deep”. I went back to the story
and I read the same first page over again.
I came to realize that you can click on a phrase and another
phrase
would come up. I click the first line of
the first page one time and then click the next page button and it
matched the
first line of page two. This it when it
came to me that maybe the phrase of each line being six lines deep
could be
related to each line on each page. Sure
enough, I was right. Each line indeed
had six different lines that could be used in the poem.
The crazy thing was that after I figured this
out, I began to click random lines from page to page and the story
would still
flow as if I had never clicked the line.
No matter how many times you clicked or no matter which line you
clicked, the story would always flow.
This blew my mind. I could not
believe this. I sat for at least 30
minutes in awe that the story remained the same no matter what order I
clicked
the lines or how many times I clicked the lines. This
realization sealed the deal for my
experience. This made me really respect
her work and respect her as an author because creating a hypertext
likes this
one takes a lot of time and I respect those that put a lot of effort
into what
to do and love to do.