The Dickey Poems

At first reading these poems it was hard to get some of the underlying themes that Dickey was trying to present. I was utterly confused but the two poems that i really enjoyed were "Cherrylog road" and "Falling." The one that I am going to talk about is "Falling." when starting out reading the poem I thought that it was a weird subject to be writng about, especially since it was an article about a woman falling out of the emergency door on a plane. I'm not sure about you but when I first read that and then when we talked about it in class, my first thought was DAMN!! how the heck did she fall out of an emergency door. But the way that Dickey used this incident and wrote a well-thought out poem about it was awesome. Also Dickey incorporated some humor into the poem as if to lighten up the moment and event. Such as the part about her forgetting her umbrella, i thought that, that was somewhat humorous. I did enjoy reading this poem and i was a little nervous about reading poetry in this class, I usually think that poetry is so incredibly boring and dry, but this wasn't half bad.