The NSEW (North South East West) HP has more to do with linearity and choice. When writing a poem, a poet makes many decisions (sometimes subconscious) concerning the direction which a poem may take. By stopping at some of these decision points, the poet can offer the reader a number of directions in which to follow the poem. The poet can write two possible subpoems to follow the decision point, and let the reader chose which one comes next. The poet can go on to write two possible subpoems for each of these two possible subpoems, and so on, thus creating a branching out of possible paths through the Hyperpoem. Although the reader choses the direction through the Hyperpoem (hence the name 'NSEW'), the poet still enforces some degree of linearity.

                                                                                                From: The E-muse:Symbiosis and the Principles of Hyperpoetry