A little musing about James Dickey

For those who don't know, James Dickey was a 20th century poet and author.  He's best known for writing the novel Deliverance and appearing as the sheriff in the movie adaptation.  Here he is in a scene with Jon Voight and Ned Beatty:

I read his poem "The Leap" recently, and the imagery struck me as instantly familiar.  The dead woman in the poem is described as looking sort of like Evelyn McHale:

Yet when I google "The Leap" and skim through some of the online literary analysis, almost no one mentions the similarity.  It can't be a coincidence--Dickey even gets the one shoe on/one shoe off part as depicted in the photo.  He must have been inspired by the photo.  Yet most literary analysts seem oblivious to it.  *shrug*

You can read The Leap here.  Compare the imagery to the photo above.