Words alone may not be enough to get a point across. Poets use symbolism to portray their emotions. An electronic poem allows an author to use ways other than words to symbolize his or her feelings. To Erin Smith, author of “For the Moon”, the moon and its phases represent her ever-changing life as she waits to achieve an unclear goal. An electric poem allows her to make connections to the reader through colors, pictures, and movement. Movement, only available in an electronic poem, puts the reader in the center of a field (Smith 1-17). The reader can use his or her cursor to spin, reading the poem in a circle around the sky (Smith 1-17). The spinning shows how the phases of the moon surround and follow Smith. The symbolism would not have