doin a line

Deliberate choices are made in the structure of the poem Backroad that help push the poem along. Backroad as a whole exists as a kind of fragmented memory - and the stanzas serve as their own fragments. Each stanza kind of has a theme, which conveys a sense of the speakers emotions to his or her memories. Ugly beauty, intimacy, a sense of self awareness, and a recollection or reflection are entities of their own. All tied to just a memory of a back road. Each stanza can stand alone and not lose it's own meaning, but the author uses them all together to create more. A couple of striking breaks I noticed in Backroads were "After," and ", He sent me". The breaks surrounding these lines puts a cold emphasis on them, which for me gives the impression of some bitterness from the speaker, and they go well with what I perceive as a large theme of the poem - warm and cold. The speaker and the lover's relationship was cold but singed with passion.