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Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry Ohio

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry Ohio In the Shreve High football stadium, I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville, And gray faces of Negroes in blast furnace at Benwood, And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel, All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home. Their women cluck like starved pullets, Their sons grow suicidally beautiful And gallop terribly against each other’s bodies. THE SPEAKER IS THE NARRATOR OF THE POEM. IN THE FIRST LINE OF THE FIRST STANZA PLACES THE SPEAKER AT THE HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBAL GAME. FROM THE TITLE AND TONE OF THE POE, THE SPEAKER MAY KNOW MORE ABOUT AREA AND LIFE OF THE TOWN, WHICH GIVES AN IMPRESSION THAT THE SPEAKER MAY BE FROM ANY IF THESE TOWNS (TINTONSVILLE, BENWOOD, MARTINS FERRY) DURING THIS TIME AT STADIUM THE SPEAKER WATCHING REFLECTING, OBSERVING AND COMPARING THE FOOTBALL TIME PERIOD. IN THE FIRST STANZA THE SPEAKERS TONE IS SOMBER, RESENTFUL AND OVERALL REFLECTIVE. HE GIVES A FEELING THAT HE KNOWS THE FEELING AND MEANING OF THESE WORDS. THROUGH HIS USE OF SYMBOLISM AND IMAGERY HE DEPICTS THESE CHARACTERS. DURING THE SECOND STANZA THE SPEAKER TONE SHIFT TO A STATE OF STRUGGLE; WITH THE USE OF OXYMORON OF “PROUD FATHER ASHAMED” AND, AGONIZING THROUGH THE METAHOE OF “WOMEN CLUCKING LIKE STARVED PULLETS”. AFTER THE PAUSE OF “THEREFORE” THE TONE SHIFTS AGAIN TO PUSHY STATE OR WANT TO GRATIFY THE FATHERS. THE OVERALL MEANING OF THIS POEM IS REFLECTS THROUGH METAPHOR AND SYMBOLISM. THE BEGINNING OF FOOTBALL SEASON IS BEING COMPARED TO THE BEGINNING AND END OF LIFES STRUGGLES. THE TITLE OF THE POEM SYMBOLIZES THE BEGINNING AND END OF THIS SEASON. END OF SUMMER - BEGINNING OF FALL (AUTUMN). ALSO THE BEGINNING OF FOOTBALL WHICH IS SYMBOLIZED AS THE LIFE OF THE TOWN (BEGINS IN MARTINS FERRY, OHIO) THE FIRST STANZA IS FULL OF IMAGERY, SYMBOLISM AND METAPHOR. “POLACKS NURSING LONG BEERS” NURSIUNG IS A SYMBOLISM FOR WATCHING WHICH TRANSLATES AS THE POLACKS SIT WATCHING TIME HAS PASSED THEM BY. I THINK “LONG BEERS” IS A HYPERBOLE FOR TIME. “AND GRAY FACES”, “RUPTURED NIGHT WATCHMAN” SYMBOLIZE DEPRESSED, HUMILATED FACES BROKEN DOWN IGNORANT FATHERS HIDING BEHIND THE DREAMS OF HEROES WHICH ARE THE PAST DREAMS AND THEIR FUTURE DREAM OF THE HEIRS. THE METAPHOR IN THE FIRST STANZA SHOWS THAT FATHERS AND PEOPLE HAVE NOTHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO EXCEPT THE ANTICIPATION, WANT OF THE SUCCES OF THE NEXT GENERATION. THE SPEAKER THEN SHIFTS THE TONE GOING INTO THE SECOND STANZA TO GUILT, STRUGGLE ANDS AGONY. “PROUD FATHERS ASHAMED TO GO HOME” IS AN OXYMORON BECAUSE A FATHER SHOULD NOT BE ASHAMED WITH A PROUD FEELING. AT THE SAME TIME THE SYMBOLISM IN THIS LINE SHOWS BEING PROUD OF THEIRS SONS BUT ASHAMED OF WHAT THEY HAVE NOT ACCOMPLISHED IN THEIR OWN LIFES. “THEIR WOMEN CLUCK LIKE STARVED PULLETS” IS A METAPHOR FOR AGONIZING WANT OF THE MENS ATTENTION (FATHER AND SON). PULLETS CLUCK WILDLY WHEN STARVED AND ABOUT TO BE SERVED. ANOTHER MEANING COULD BE A PROUD FATHER ARE ASHAMED TO GO HOME TO SEE AND FEEL THE SUCCESS OF THEIR SONS IN THIS GREAT GAME OF FOOTBALL THEY KNOW SO WELL. ASHAMED OF WHAT THEY HAVE NOT SUCCEED OR THEIR LIMITED LIFE THEY HAVE LEAD. WOMEN MEANING PEOPLE WANTING TO BE AROUND AND GET THEIR (SONS) WANTING TO BE LIKE THEM OR WANTING WANT THEY HAVE ACHIEVED AND THE THEIR FATHER “DYING” FOR THE THAT “LOVE” AGAIN. THE THIRD STANZA BEGINS WITH “THEREFORE” THIS IS PAUSE IS PURPOSEFULL BUT UNEXPLAINABLE. AFTER THIS PAUSE THE TONE SHIFTS FOR THE LAST TIME. TO A SENSE OF PRESSURE THE SONS ARE GETTING AND PUTTING ON THEMSELVES. THEY TRY SO HARD TO SUCCEED TO AND BREAK THE CYCLE OF THIS GLOOMY TOWN AND HELP FORFILL THEIR FATHERS DREAM THAT THEY WORK THEMSELVES TO DEATH. BUT THE IDEA OF WORKING THEMSELVES TO DEATH IS BEAUTIFUL FOR THE CHANCE TO GET OUT WITH THE PUSH OF THEIR AND IMAGE OF WHAT COULD HAPPEN. Bibliography:

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