t he is trying to say that the small town didn’t know the southerner. He was a foreign man to them who they treated like they knew him and gave him a proper burial. The Southerner could have been originally from the North but moved to the South at a young age and lived there until he died. They travel with his casket open, could this have a meaning behind it saying that he wanted everybody to see him before he was buried and never seen again. The next poem that I have chosen is called “Gamecock”. This poem is the life of a gamecock, or also called a fighting chicken. The poem starts off talking about how the actions of the cock. They are all based on fear, jealousy and murder when talking about his hens. There in no light in the chicken barn, as his legs are asleep. According to the poem he is in a crazed state of mind is like an “Old man in a terminal ward.“ (320). How he is crazy and different from every one else. There fore he is punished for his actions and treated differently then everyone else. He wakes up every day ready to crow his symbol to bring on that day. In the poem he is ready to protect all the female chickens, from another cock that could be in there house. He is ready to battle to the death for what he thinks is his. In this poem he uses ridicule, when he is talking about the old man in a terminal ward, and he also uses connotations. Some example of connotations are when he uses words like; enraged, sullenly, savagery, unappeased and terminal.The life of James Dickey was very diverse and involved many different people. His poetry showed this diversity in many ways too. He has over 2,000 poems, all of which have different genres and different places they have came from. Some of which could have been from past jobs, and others could have been from his past places of residence. That is why he was a very popular poet for his time....
