Henry was not a coward. Much.
He never deserted anything; instead
he stuck, when things like pity were thinning.
So may be Henry was a human being.
Let's investigate that.
. . . We did; okay.
He is a human American man.
That's true. My lass is braking.
My brass is aching. Come & diminish me, & map my way.
God's Henry's enemy. We're in business . . . Why,
what business must be clear.
A cornering.
I couldn't feel more like it. --Mr Bones,
as I look on the saffron sky,
you strikes me as ornery.
Kevin Young claimed that Berryman wrote his dream songs to counter every trend in American poetry at the time, ie: Modernism. Well one of the most prominent trends of Modernism at the time is the unreliable narrator. Here we see Berryman use first person, however this person is not Berryman. With that being said who is the narrator and why is he allowed to know so much? The unreliable narrator in most stories is sheltered from the author, but Berryman’s  unreliable narrator is almost all knowing. This is just one example of how Berryman transformed Modernism to better suit his writing style and personality.
Dream Song 13