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Immersive Poetry

An immersive poem is focused around a strong emotion, but the emotion is never referred to directly within the body of the poem. Instead, it is invested in the minute physical details that make up the scene.

Immersive poetry was foreshadowed in the work of poets like ee cummings, Amy Lowell and Robert Hayden

In general an immersive poet pays close attention to craft, including word choice, rhymes and meter. However, immersive poetry rarely uses a standard form, either creating one that matches the poem’s atmosphere, or using rhyme and meter not according to a set pattern, but to illuminate the underlying emotional content.

Immersive poetry is an example of the emergent design principle of overlapping realms of meaning, as well as a demonstration of the emergence of (noncorporeal) emotions from the material world.

1. People: Ellie Hastings

   Ellie is an immersive poet, student (math), and writer; a kitten and Scrabble affectionada; and a fan [boo! -ed.] of libertarian capitalism and the free market.
   
   
   (we found the hill.......beneath slick sheets..........)

2. Poetry: Waking Life

   This is my very favorite of my own poems.
   It was written loosely in response to the movie of the same title
   
   Dreams that can and dreams that cannot be
   mix like myths and mist among the reeds
   I'd like a glass of something if you please
   
   They hang like hanged men hung from hallowed trees
   
   Watched by dodgy dogs of dogmatic breeds
   I'd like a glass of something before I leave
   
   The seeds of doubt are sung, sowed, torn, told
   The seasons of our lives are young, young, young, old
   I'd like a glass of something, it doesn't matter if it's cold
   
   If it's strong, and if it's wet
   and lingers on the tongue I bet
   that I'll have all that I can get
   
   and postpone waking life
   
   
   

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