James Dickey Symbolism

teenagers is their passion and their lust just like the old cars. Once someone had a passion for the old cars, and once upon a time someone was in a lust by the old car as well. The speaker himself or should we say as readers James Dickey that he reads the lives of past generations into their wrecked vehicles. One example of the speaker putting lives into their wrecked and old vehicles is when he was in the front of the car imaging people in the car through the back window, and when he imagines the old lady taking toys to the orphanage. The type of symbolism that the author uses for putting people’s lives work in two different types of ways. The symbolism shows how the authors mind can make a setting or playgrounds anywhere it must a prime example of the author making a setting is when he turned the junkyard into a paradise. The symbolism of the author putting new lives or the owner’s old life’s into dead cars also shows how anything can become subject to age and deterioration.
With Dickey writing in this type of style it makes him unique and diverse. Readers have the opportunity to feel like they are living through Dickey’s early life. By, reading Dickey’s poem the opportunity also a rises to get a feel for the events that were historically happening during the time period of publishing. Readers are easily pulled into the poem Cherrylog Road due to the literary devices used and the depth of the poem that goes on past the words of the paper. Due to Dickeys unique combination of the poem Cherrylog road these are the reasons it became so well-known even into the twentieth-first