As a novice in poetry, I am easily impressed. I knew these are famous poems that people have analyzed, praised, and been deeply moved by.<\/p>\n
And I will join them.<\/p>\n
Autumn Begins In Martins Ferry, Ohio<\/span><\/p>\n James Wright<\/span><\/p>\n Americans then, probably still now, went to sport events to escape from their lives, their miserable and hopeless lives. They have dreams and they see those dreams in their sons who play high-school football. High school is pretty much the end of their formal education. The allure of those dreams even kept them away from their wives.<\/p>\n James Wright impressed those hopeless lives on my heart that I cannot shake off for days. I re-read this poem many times. The power of the words pounds on me. The last 4 lines grew in weight every time I read them. That “therefore”<\/em> became a trapdoor to sink a deeper and deeper sadness.<\/p>\n What a master poet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a novice in poetry, I am easily impressed. I knew these are famous poems that people have analyzed, praised, and been deeply moved by. And I will join them. Autumn Begins In Martins Ferry, Ohio In the Shreve High … Continue reading \r\nIn the Shreve High football stadium,\r\nI think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,\r\nAnd gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood,\r\nAnd the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel,\r\nDreaming of heroes.\r\n\r\nAll the proud fathers are ashamed to go home.\r\nTheir women cluck like starved pullets,\r\nDying for love.\r\n\r\nTherefore,\r\nTheir sons grow suicidally beautiful\r\nAt the beginning of October,\r\nAnd gallop terribly against each other's bodies.<\/pre>\n