Poetry+-+David+Bottoms

Daylen and Jonah: 1. Shooting Rats is about some men out getting drunk at a junkyard. The men are in a car and they see a bunch of rats and they flash their head lights on them and it scares the rats. So by the lights, it causes the rats to freeze in shock. Then the men start shooting at them. The Vulture is about a man riding along the river in a boat. He tens turns off the engine and let the river carry him. While drifting down the river he looks at the trees and vultures and vultures are in them. 2. Shooting Rats simile; lie still like dead beer cans personification; shot still head the jump only once Under the Vulture Tree simile; ugly as a human heart; like the faces of the very old metaphor; those dwarf transfigured angles 3. The author's structure of these poems differ from poem to poem. It seems he doesen't have a set number of of lines for each stanza. He talks about things that are about vultures and drunk men. I think this writer has a nostalogic tone in his writing. 4. What makes these poems southern is the fack of drunk men;shooting rats at a junkyeard, and the fact of floating down a river looking at vultures in trees. 5. Serious