James Wright's Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio

The title of the poem seems to depict a harvest scene, the leaves fall from the trees, the summer is over, the winter is ready, and the autumn begins. However, this seasonal change in the natural life cycle occurs in Martins Ferry, home of Ohio state light. It affects his feelings and emotions. He was born on Martins Ferry, Ohio on December 13, 1927. His father worked at a glass factory. His mother is washing.

In the book "Autumn of Martins Ferry, Ohio", the writer James Wright tells the story of a seemingly small, low-level blue-collar community bordered by the love and fantasies of football. In Martins Ferry, football is a way to escape from the world where citizens are trapped. Countryside sports in the United States, especially high school sports, already lost their purity, or the very interesting qualities of the past, and already reflect the wishes of parents playing lost dreams and games. The first line of poetry explains thousands of games held during the fall in the fall. "Polacks Care Long Beer" (2), "Black Face" (3), and "Wheeling Steel Cave Night Watcher" (4) are in any small town high school football stadium. Polack chose to "bother" the beer. It can provide scenes to the people of the high school football tournament.

Does the light mean to protest against football violence - at least, is Martins Ferry's football? It is not by the poet himself who played for the Sammy team in the Ohio Valley once. The game at high school is "personalized, formalized violence", but "expressing elegance of the body" is very beautiful. "Wright's own high school not only boys destined to become frustrated (like his father) but also at least one football hero - Cleveland Brown kicker Lou Groza is also producing" The James Wright Poetry Proceedings ", Dave Smith edited in an interview with comments in reprints 3 - 4. )