James Dickey, All American Poe
James Dickey was an American Poet whose life has been very diverse, and in his poetry that diversity is shown. He has a lifestyle that most poets do not get to experience. He has lived in many states and countries. That gives me the reason to think that his poetry resembles this life's diversity. James Lafayette Dickey, III was born in the town of Atlanta, Georgia on February 2, 1923. His parents were Maibelle and Eugene Dickey. He went to Ed S. Cook Elementary School and North Fulton High School as a kid, both of which are in Atlanta. He was athletic as a child. He played football and track, but his football career led him to a scholarship at the University of Clemson, in Clemson, South Carolina. But, before he went off to college he spent one year at the Darlington School in Rome, Georgia for one year in preparation for a college. He didn't last longer than a year in Clemson though because he enlisted into the Army Air Corps. He served in WWII as a flight radar observer and navigator. After serving in the army he went to school at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. He went there on the G. I. Bill. After graduating from Vanderbilt with a M. A. in English, he started to teach. He taught first at the Rice Ins
The next poem that I have chosen is called "Gamecock". He had wrote more than 20 books, some include; 'Poems 1947-1967' published in 1967, 'The Zodiac' (1976), and 'The Whole Motion' (1992). His time there was cut short because he was recalled to duty in Korea as flight training instructor. I do not understand why a Southerner would want to be buried in the North, and in the water with his casket open? Why doesn't he want to be buried in the South, or at least in the ground? This poem is a dream according to the text before the poem in our textbook called Elements of Literature. In 1997 he taught his last class at USC January 14. Some of which could have been from past jobs, and others could have been from his past places of residence. His poetry showed this diversity in many ways too. In 1996 he was afflicted with fibrosis of the lungs. The diversity of his poems is shown in many ways. He returned to teaching in 1965 at University of Wisconsin, in Milwaukee. " He left Florida and made his way up to New York to work as an advertising copywriter. He was then given the honor of the induction into the 50-member American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters on May 18th, 1988. He has many poems with nature or animals in their names.
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