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| Sections from The Sky. E.E. CUmmings |
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| Draft of Maggie and Milly and Molly and May, E.E. Cummings Taken from: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tgifreytag/6882086284 |
What appealed to us about this draft was the many textual elements that we could play with. There is typewriter text and handwritten text. There is text that has been struck out, text that has been overwritten, and text that has additional emphasis. There is text that is aligned to the right side of the page, text that is aligned to the left, and even some that sits in the middle. It's perfect!
.... well, that is until we realized that we could not read most of the author's handwriting, which kind of took the wind out of our sails.
This did give us a good starting point though, and got us thinking about what was possible to do with a text encoded to XML. We ended up selecting a working draft from another Poet, Sylvia Plath, that has a bit more context and is also a lot easier to decipher.
I'm looking forward to playing around with it, and seeing what we manage to come up with!
The draft of E.E. Cummings' poem Maggie and Millie and Molly and May would definitely be a challenge based on the image you have here. I know in our group we continue to struggle with the balance between form and content, and what is more relevant in encoding a text using TEI. We also toyed with the idea of looking at author's papers where there were revisions, but that had us thinking more about the interface than the code itself. I think that looking at a poem by Sylvia Plath at a time when her authorial voice made a distinct shift will make for a really interesting process and interpretation!
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