The poems, “Driving in Oklahoma” and “Freeway 280”, are different in many ways, but they also have a lot in common. First, they both are modern poems, so we cannot find rhymes or clear meter in them. Almost all contemporary poetry does not have rhymes. This style has even a name - “free-verse”. In my opinion, it is the easiest way to write poems: a poet does not have to think carefully about phrases and rhymes that create …showed first 75 words of 1029 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1029 total…g is missed, a person feels that there is some gap in his identity. It disturbs him and forces him to start searching. Lorna Dee Cervantes and Carter Revard tell us that they lost their “home” and now are trying to find it again. They have different understanding of “home”, but they have the same determination to find it.