Something More Than Just A Job
A few of the readings from this week and last week speak to the working life without directly discussing work. For instance, “Those Winter Sundays” and “Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry” are poems part of our reading even though they are not about professions/jobs. They are touching something that deals with how are lives are lived.
Discuss an aspect of any of the readings we have had this term that connect to something more than just the job.
Use this reding below to connect to something written in that more than just the job. (1 page)
“Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry” by James Wright
In the Shreve High football stadium,
I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,
And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood,
And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel,
Dreaming of heroes.
All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home,
Their women cluck like starved pullets,
Dying for love.
Therefore,
Their sons grow suicidally beautiful
At the beginning of October,
And gallop terribly against each other’s bodies.