"O," "Backroad," and "Mirror"

For Thursday, I would like you to specifically look at the way these poets use lines and stanzas. If we "remove the net" from poetry and do not require it to be written in meter and rhyme, the poet must invent a form that is appropriate to the content. Therefore, as you read any poem, but perhaps especially a free verse poem, you should ask yourself questions like these: Why are the stanzas divided in this manner? Why are the lines this length? Why is the line broken after this word and not another?

You can talk about other things as well, but I would like most of your discussion to center on the poets' use of lines and stanzas.

Thank you.