On my mind there is a memory
a moment in time, a story
of friends.
on my desk there is a frame
a picture with the one named
my friend.
on my row there is a chair
a classmate no longer there,
my friend.
on the map there is a state
an empty distance, which separates
my friend.
and
me.
in the last stanza of the poem, how does word placement most clearly contribute
to the meaning of the poem? a) the separation of the words "my friend/and/me" slows the poems pace to reflect the time it would take to drive to the friends new home.
b) the separation of the words "my friend/and/me" reinforces the idea that the speaker of the poem is distant from his or her friend.
c) the use the comma to separate the words "distance" and "which" mimics the separation that the speacker feels has begun to affect the friendship.
d) the use of the comma to separate the words "distance" and "which" creats a pause in the peom to indicate that the speaker is not sure how to continue.