Poetry+-+James+Dickey

Stephanie


 * The poem in one word is daring.**

This poem is about a girl, Doris Holbrook, and a boy who isn't allowed to be loved by each other, otherwise known as forbidden love. These two sneak out together at 12 noon and meet at the junkyard off of Cherrylog Rd. They were going to the junkyard to make out and do grown poeple business. In the beginning of the poem, it talks about the truck being covered in kudzu. Kudzu is an Asian vine that belongs to the legume family.

SETTING: off of highway 106 at Cherrylog Rd. at the Junkyard IMAGERY: smuthered in Kudzu PERSONIFICATION: the weedy heart of the junkyard SYMBOL: Cherrylog Rd. TONE: nervous, enthusiastic, intimate FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: the '34 Ford without wheels SIMILE: like a mouse in the southern state sun METAPHOR: as i did, leaning forward as in a wild stock car race ENDSTOP: wild to be wreckage forever IDIOM: with no trace of me on her face

The structure of this poem is in chronological order. The tone of the story is rushy, and intimate. The author likes for the reader to go into and think outside the box to read the poem.

The poem is southern because of the highway, and the road, Cherrylog Rd. It also has a junkyard, and most southern cities have a junkyard. Many southern states and cities don't.


 * James Dickey; Cherry Log Road**

Summary: This poem is about a forbidden love. Two teens meet up together in this junk yard type of environment to be with each other so Doris' father doesn't find out they are both afraid of being caught then again their willing to risk it to be with each other because they feel as though they love each other so much.

Alliteration: " like a mouse in the southern state sun."

Assonance: " a radiator cap raised its head."

Figurative Language: " was eating the plant in blisters, through dust where the black snake dies, I got in as though to exclaim."

Imagery: sleepy roaches, red- haired father, the black snake stiff

Metaphor: weedy heart of the junk yard, black snake stiff

Setting: this story takes place off Cherry Log road off of Highway 106.

Simile: As I did, leaning forward as in a wild stock car- race

Symbol:1. loosening the screws; to me this means that they are taking off their clothes. 2.Other than her lips' new trembling; her heat was scared and her whole body was trembling

Consanance: I would hold to me soon, soon

Endstop: In the parking lot of the dead.

Idiom: black snake stiff

Tiana