Cherrylog Road (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Dickey
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Narrative
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Teenagers, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, South or Southerners, Automobiles, Motorcycles or motorbikes
The Poem
“Cherrylog Road” is a narrative poem, a memory recounted in the first person. The title identifies the setting of the event that the speaker recalls: Cherrylog Road is the location of a junkyard in which the speaker meets his teenage lover for secret assignations. As the title suggests, the poem pays a lot of attention to setting, even identifying Cherrylog Road, in the first and last stanzas, as a roadway branching off of Highway 106. In spite of this specificity, the poet identifies the location only as an unnamed “southern-state.” Details reveal that the...
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