Question

there are 25 lines in the poem. the poem is numbered every 5 lines. driving in oklahoma on humming rubber along this white concrete, lighthearted between the gravities of source and destination like a man halfway to the moon in this bubble of tuneless whistling at seventy miles an hour from the windvents, over prairie swells rising and falling, over the quick offramp that drops to its underpass and the truck thundering beneath as i cross with the country music hanging out my windows, im grooving down this highway feeling technology is freedoms other name when —a meadowlark¹ comes sailing across my windshield with breast shining yellow and five notes pierce the windroar like a flash of nectar on mind, gone as the country music swells up and drops me wheeling down my notch of cement - bottomed sky between home and away and wanting to move again through country that a bird has defined wholly with song. which statement best describes how the structure of the poem contributes to the poems meaning? 1. the poem uses repeated words and phrases, suggesting that a car ride is usually boring. 2. the poem consists of a single long sentence, imitating a long, continuous drive down a road. 3. the poem consists of two stanzas, one describing the journey and one describing the speaker. 4. the poem uses pairs of rhyming lines, mimicking the gentle, constant up and down of the road.

Explanation:

The poem "Driving in Oklahoma" is one - long continuous thought, mirroring the continuous nature of a long drive. It doesn't have distinct stanzas dividing the journey and the speaker clearly, nor does it have a lot of repeated words or paired rhyming lines. The single - sentence structure imitates the unbroken flow of a road trip.

Answer:

1. The poem consists of a single long sentence, imitating a long, continuous drive down a road.