The Life Cycle of a Poem in Multimedia Poetry A Semiotic-Cultural Reading of a Poem (The Poem Revealed to Me Its Vertical Light)

Multimedia literature or interactive digital literature is a kind of literature that denotes screen literature through hyperlinks gaining a certain degree of interaction. This term necessarily applies to interactive digital literary genres in poetry and narration. Therefore, we call multimedia poetry or poetics that used informational media ‘interactive digital poetry’, or ‘multimedia poetry. The two terms are synonymous and can be used interchangeably.        The present study aims to investigate the interactive digital poem ‘the poem revealed to me its vertical light’ within the framework of the semio-digital culture approach as an endeavor to disclose the life cycle in this poem, and how it is written through the word, painting, and animation. The importance of the study lies in observing the difficulties and pains that accompany the process of the poem’s birth via its digital medium. The results of the study showed that the poem demonstrates a clear contradiction between the title and the nature of the internal text. The title refers to the poem’s verticality, while the internal text celebrates the prose poem in its digital attire. The poem also took a round path in sailing; an expression of the non-stop mobility of creative births and its continuation. The poet also refrained from the generalization of his text.