SIGNIFICANCE— CHILDREN’S TIME

Children’s time has a wide and simple significance. First of all it could be interesting to know, which the point of view of the author was, that is, Deena Larsen.

- When she wrote this hypertext, she found interesting to introduce some Japanese letters, called Kanjis, to give to the hypertext a different dimension, with this letters she explore words and their significance, and how they adapt between them.

- What the hypertext is trying to transmit us, is the idea of a child, a child in summer, with all this characteristic joy, and excitement which implies the idea of play with friends in the swimming pool. All this happiness, racket, disturbance…That’s what constitutes the idea of the poem.

-Maybe what Deena Larsen tries to do, is to persuade us, or to make the reader remember their personal experiences, to get identified with this happiness every children experiment at the swimming pool. With the use of this specific kanji, we perceive movement; the kanji representation seems a bird with open wings, but when we read the poem, we can almost see a child running toward the pool with his arms outstretched.

Academic year 2008/2009
© a.r.e.a./Dr.Vicente Forés López
© Kristel Laserna Manzanedo
krisla@alumni.uv.es
Universitat de València Press