Daniel Montez Barnes is a outstanding individual who has made it from pages of turmoil to a open book of triumphant. The struggle Barnes states is really a part of growing, without it how can you know what contentment and prosperity is. All what is shared by Daniel Barnes such as his first book Poetic Enlightenment. Comes from life experiences and self analyzation. Bringing forth knowledge that is given so that wisdom may be spreaded. Rather Poetry, Self help, or a novel, a moral to the story is what should be our objective, so that the words contained in the book may produce understanding.