Questions and Answers for Southbound on the Freeway
Southbound on the Freeway
What is the genre,topic,meaning,message and structure of this poem?
May Swenson is one of my favorite poets. "Southbound on the Freeway" is a poem of 13 stanzas (a group of lines in a poem) of two lines each. It's written in free verse because it doesn't rhyme or...
Southbound on the Freeway
In "Southbound on the Freeway," are we the guts, or the brains? do cars control us or do we control...
In May Swenson's poem "Southbound on the Freeway," the poet never really tells us if humans are the guts or the brains. Instead, the poet poses the question and frames that question within the...