For those unfamiliar, the term 'stream of conscious' was first used in the poetic sense by the early Nineteenth Century Transcendentalists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson to describe the mechanism at work of the poet writing forth his/her thoughts as they come forth, unabridged and unedited in a similar sense that automatic writing is used, which paints a very personal and very internal portrait of the poet. Albeit often so personal that the significance is easily missed as it delves so deep within the interior mind of the composer. Many elements of and in (the work) are what they are in that they aren't meant to be "understood" via conventional means, they exist and they're in existence to be absorbed and taken in for what they are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
