The author's use of poetry as a literary form influences the meaning of the passage because it allows the author to use stanzas to emphasize contrasting ideas.
What is a stanza?
Just like a paragraph is a group of lines in a text, a stanza is a group of lines in a poem. In some cases, poem have a fixed, rigid structure that asks for a certain number of stanzas. In other cases, it depends on the author's intention.
In the poem "To Once Coming North," the author uses stanzas to emphasize contrasting ideas. For example, stanza 1 is about feeling happy when one sees the snow for the first time. Stanza 3, on the other hand, is about missing home when everything is covered with snow.
With the information above in mind, we can choose option D as the correct answer.
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