Read this stanza from allen ginsberg’s "a supermarket in california." what thoughts i have of you tonight, walt whitman, for i walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. why does the author most likely use free verse for this stanza? the long-line structure serves as an introduction to the narrative. the long-line structure provides background for the allusion. the long-line structure imitates stream-of-conscious thought. the long-line structure allows for predictable rhyme schemes.

I would say the correct answer is C. The long-line structure imitates stream-of-conscious thought. Ginsberg's poetry resembles and enacts the stream-of-consciousness process, where one image naturally leads to another, unmediated by scholarly poetical rules and constraints. This poem is about a guy who wanders the streets at night, entering a supermarket, observing happy and busy people there, while invocating the great American Walt Whitman, who is an epitome of Americanness, but also an outcast, just like the poet himself (both of them were gay).

C: "The long line structure imitates stream of conscious though" Was correct for me! :)