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The more I read Whitman, the more I have to agree with the idea of his writing being presented as a stream of conciousness. Every idea he states is connected with a later idea. It is both hard to follow and easy to understand. Although what that means I am not entirely sure. Whitman connects one idea with another so smoothly that it is difficult to differentiate the beginning of one thing and the start of a new one, but it also seems to follow a logical order as well. I enjoy reading him, but I have to really concentrate to absorb the entirity of a paragraph without having to go back and reread it several times, which is usually what I have to do everytime I read prose and poetry anyway. I have thus far enjoyed reading Leaves of Grass and hope that Whitman continues to take me on a meandering journey through his thoughts.