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Thursday, July 13, 2006

START

Directions: Please start on this page. Click on one of the colors below- whichever you like- and then keep clicking on the links (the linked items on this page are this color and are underlined) for at least a few minutes. If the links take you off of the website, please continue clicking on whatever peaks your interest. When you are done please leave a comment on this page (the main page) describing your link journey. I left an example on the comments below to clarify.

RED

ORANGE

YELLOW

GREEN

BLUE

PURPLE

BLACK

WHITE

posted by Julie @ 2:05 PM  

16 Comments:

  • At 2:59 PM, Blogger Julie said…

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  • At 4:52 PM, Blogger Julie said…

    Black-> black-> (off website onto another page on internet) here-> Making Sure the Tractor Works-> Thomas Lux-> Old Man Shoveling Snow-> Charles Simic-> The Voice at 3 a.m.

     

  • At 4:54 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Ok I chose green first,
    this led me to Commuters by eddy herish. Levly poem i decided to rock a hot color after a cool one so I did
    Red brick houses, which luckly led me to The Red Wheelbarrow, by my main man W. Carlos W. An enlivening afterwork poetic jaunt.

     

  • At 6:03 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    My journey: blue to blue to blue to Audio Anthology to Main Menu to Notable Books to Gear and Collectibles to Audio Archive to Notable Books... so there you go!

     

  • At 6:55 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Purple->poem: by wallace Steven-> clicked on weather poems -> then beach poems -> back to starting page-> read some of Forgotten Dialect (hated it) -> clicked "white" link in text of poem -> color theory web page -> done

     

  • At 7:14 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Blue->Tattoo->Black->Failed Existentialist in a Feild of Fireflies->back->Blue->High Windows->Blue->off site(Poets.org)

     

  • At 7:16 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    I picked Red-> went to poem "Refrigerator, 1957"-> clicked on quote in poem with red color imagery-> led to another poem "The Red Wheelbarrow"->wasn't interested in links so went back to previous page with "Refrigerator" and clicked on Julie's profile-> clicked on "pinball" to see what came up-> an oddly large number of people have profiles mentioning pinball-> the end!

     

  • At 7:28 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    BLUE -> blue->blue->Privelege of Being->To His Coy Mistress->It Was Raining in Delft

    DONE!!

     

  • At 6:04 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

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  • At 6:07 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Green -> Edward Hirsch -> Blue -> Philip Larkin -> Blue (poetry.org) -> here -> Green -> Nicola's Homepage -> back -> Red Brick House -> Thomas Lux

     

  • At 7:13 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Orange > Orange > poems by EE Cummings > you shall above all things be glad and young > visit my homepage > space curves unto itself > aaron peluso > 404 file not found.

     

  • At 10:12 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hi, and thanks for sending me this poem hunter site. . I liked it and it is definitely longer than a five mintue exploration, because once you get to a site you like ( and can READ . .. ) the longer you want to stay. I think this is good for people who are literate, but for people who are dyslexic or learning disabled, not so much. It would be good if the colors could correspond to reading level so that inner city black kids with a 3rd grade reading level don't click on purple like I did and get to Wallace Stevens and get commpletely turned off to reading further. My next link was the lyrics of Don Henley so I could stay there all day. From the perspective of a teacher trainer who works with special education, this site would benefit from ideas for lesson plans from teachers who have used it in their classroom. Thanks for sending this,

    Sincerely
    Lesley's Dad

     

  • At 10:58 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Clicked on green-> Commuter poem-> blue-> High Windows-> blue-> Poets.org website-> Walt Whitman

     

  • At 11:24 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    ok, jules, here's mine:
    clicked on purple, because that's the color i painted my toenails yesterday, this took me to a favorite wallace stevens poem of mine, then clicked on dream, because it suited my mood. that took me to some terrible dream poems on the poem hunter website. clicked on marriage, because i dreamed of weddings last night. another sappy poem on poem hunter. clicked on Hooverphonic because i liked the word, Hooverphonic turned out to be a band. clicked on the link to the lyrics of one of the band's songs, the link/song was titled "everytime we live together we die a bit more." i chose that one because it was an interesting song title, though i hesitated because it was depressing and i didn't want to leave a depressing trail of links.
    then i went back to your site where the good poems are. clicked on green, blue, black, and white before i realized i really need to get back to work. i'll read the rest later.
    that's all, good luck with the project!
    -amanda

     

  • At 12:17 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    jules, here's the story of my journey... blue-->tattoo to blue again-->High windows to blue-->off site(poets.org) where I learned of some interesting readings, but none right around me. Tattoo was my favorite, though it left me with a sad feeling.
    -myla

     

  • At 6:49 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Orange, yellow, white, all love? Not love colors usually, makes me question the colors of relationships.

     

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