This poem was very interesting to me. It had great description of a car. The car was a '34 ford. For example it says,"Releasing the rust from its other color." That is a great description of the car. The story also has many sexual inuendos in it. For example,"So the blacksnake, stiff with inaction, curved back into life, and hunted the mouse." I didn't realize it while I was reading it but when you explained it in class I understood. It also describes the two people as doing something wrong and they have to sneak to do it.
This poem is a good poem because it has great description and good analogies.
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One thing I continuously find about poetry is that it is hard to interpret at first but once I understand it a little better everything flows together much easier than it appears. When I read this poem I understood a few parts of it and actually thought I was doing pretty well. When we talked about it in class I felt that the poem was actually much simpler than I had originally thought. At times I consider poetry so confusing that I over-analyze what the author is talking about and end up making an easy poem into a confusing mess. While we were talking about this poem in class I kept thinking to myself that I would have been able to understand what was happening if I did not put a deep focus on the fact that I was reading poetry. That is one thing I have learned while reading the poems and going over them in class. While some poetry is difficult, much of it can be interpreted at least pretty close to what the author is describing.
I also was struck by the descriptions of the cars. It seems as though the young narrator does pay a lot of attention to them because he describes them in such a way that almost ascribes to each one a unique personality. The line, “None had the same body heat,” seems to suggest the different lives that each car must have lead. I think it is interesting that the narrator explores a part of the past through his time in the junkyard. However, there still an undercurrent of youthful irreverence because the narrator’s mind is primarily consumed with Doris Holbrook, his lover. He only comes to the junkyard for their clandestine meeting and not to pay homage to the “parking lot of the dead.” This poem reminds me of one of Katherine Anne Porter’s stories from The Old Order, The Grave. Miranda and her brother explore the burial sites of some of their relatives and feel as though they should feel a connection to the past but really don’t. Instead they enjoy finding treasures in the graves and the forbidden nature of their adventure’s location. In both cases the youth feel only a minor connection to the past and are more concerned with present matters.
I think that this poem is interesting because i think that it really is the most sexual poem. The whole thing is about a horny couple sneaking away to meet up in a junkyard to get it on. Now the sex thing is funny because i didn't get it the first time but reading it in class i kind of got the humor. We hear a lot of that these days about "snake" being referred to as the "male body part". It's just humourous the way he used the animal to describe a human part.
One of my favorite things about poetry is the ways that each writers finds to describe everyday things that we often overlook. then, when we read these descriptions they are moving and do a great job at making life seem much more intresting and intrecet. Dickey expecially did an amazing job at choosing descriptions that not only caught my attention but so often made me think about what the true essence of the object is. I think that this ability to get the reader tuned into this emotion is talent. they have so many options of what to put down, and what to describe somthing as that each word carries more than its page meaning. i like that they have this ability, it would be so nice to walk down the street and see things the way poets see them, a tree could be a musical composition for example.
I agree that when reading poetry quietly to oneself it is often really hard to interpret it. I think that once we read them in class, I was like "Duh, how did I not get that before." I do not know why that is, but I often find it with poetry.
I also really liked how descriptive this poem was. I love when I am reading something and I can really get a clear picture of what is going on. I love how in this poem, Dickey gave us really good images that we did not even have to search for. Usually if you are lucky enough to find a poem with really good imagery, you have to search within the poem to find it. However, this poem was not like that at all; everything was just there in the open for us to read.
The descriptions in this poem definitely brought it to life, since they were so literal it made the poem easier to understand. When we started off reading these poems I think I was overwhelmed, but after we discussed it in class I knew exactly was Dickey was talking about. The sexual inuendos inhanced the poem (ha ha) or at least made them more fun to read.
i have to say that many of dickey's poem were highly sexual and leaning to the dangeroud wrong side of life. it is almost like dickey was truly trying to tell us that this is how life is and that things like in Cherrylog Road happen almost everyday.
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