Within the reading, Sleeping on the Wing, the author mentions the stream of consciousness at the end of work. In my opinion I feel this is the best method of writing, but not writing poetry. If you were writing in this fashion a book, the stream of consciousness would be more comprehendable as opposed to a poem written in the stream of consciousness form. I believe a poem can not be well written if it is written in this form because it is my opinion that a poem should have some had some thought put into it if it is to be a "good" poem. A poem is meant to convey some deeper message the poet wants the reader to understand. Stream of consciousness writing is very difficult to make comprehendable in a few short stanza's with unclear messages being portrayed. When J.D. Salinger wrote Catcher In The Rye, he used the stream of consciousness route in writing. Because it was Holden's talking the entire time to the doctor he was able to digress on tangent thoughts and express his feelings better that way. If a poet wrote in tangent lines, all the while trying to convey a simple message to the reader, the meaning would be lost because all the reader would see is incohesive sentences strung together and called a poem. Also, within this reading, the author mentions the possibility of a poem just being as it seems. In other words, the author was trying to explain when a poem seems very simple, there might not be a deeper meaning, that it may very well just be the poet reflecting on something and being straight forward about their response. I think this is a valid assessment. I believe some poets do not have a deeper meaning to their work. I feel they are simply writing, in what is their opionion, a beautiful combination of words. But contradictory to what I just said, I also believe the majority of many works written have a deeper significance for the poet, and they are trying to explain that meaning to the reader.

*Donya Botkan*