Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio

How does James Wright use imagery in Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio?

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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 Their women cluck like starved pullets Their sons grow suicidally beautiful And gallop terribly against each other’s bodies
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Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio