Language and Imagery in Punching Out - 1841 Daniels' ability to "articulate people's inarticulate feelings" in his clear and often creative free verse style. But the culture Daniels highlights in his poetry is far from inarticulate, as the reviewer indicates; more precisely, the culture expresses its feelings and emotions in a vernacular language unfamiliar to those outside it and to those accustomed to the eloquence and expression of higher themes in traditional poetry Daniels simply distills the. essence of these feelings through a gesture, a thought, an image or a scene more deftly than the blue-collar workers around him, using poetry to respond to the difficulties, hopes and concerns of this culture on his own terms. Throughout the poems contained in Punching Out, Daniels creatively manipulates the poetic devices of imagery, allusion, language, and rhythm to vividly describe the oppressive environment of the factory and the demoralizing effects of work repetitive on his workers. chooses to highlight Ford's ironic approach to its workers, such is the manufacturer's slogan. Quality seems to be the priority in Daniels' portrayal as long as it doesn't hinder results. Buying a cheap radio from a merchant who assures him that he buys "quality goods", (author's emphasis), the author curses the malfunctioning machine, telling himself that he should "know everything on quality by how". The conveniently placed slash in the title “Quality/Control” once again highlights the company's ambivalent stance on quality versus profits. In the poem,...... middle of paper ......over depicts the utopian vision of a mural by Diego Rivera showing all types of workers, black and white, young and old, working together to the common cause of the automobile industry. Jim Daniels' more troubling vision shows that the real leveling effect of industry comes not from some socialist unity of the world's workers, but from stripping every worker equally of their human dignity. Daniels is able to capture, through the simplest gestures and stories, the desperation of auto workers. In “Old Green,” he tells the story of a worker who retires after nearly half a century of dedication to the company, based on an aerial photo of the factory. “As hard as you look for it, you will never find it,” notes Daniels, and all of his poetry eloquently reflects this plight of the worker. Works Cited Daniels, Jim Punching Out Detroit: Wayne State University Press., 1990.

Essay / Language and Imagery in Punching Out - 1841 Daniels' ability to "articulate people's inarticulate feelings" in his clear and often creative free verse style. But the culture Daniels highlights in his poetry is far from inarticulate, as the reviewer indicates; more precisely, the culture expresses its feelings and emotions in a vernacular language unfamiliar to those outside it and to those accustomed to the eloquence and expression of higher themes in traditional poetry Daniels simply distills the. essence of these feelings through a gesture, a thought, an image or a scene more deftly than the blue-collar workers around him, using poetry to respond to the difficulties, hopes and concerns of this culture on his own terms. Throughout the poems contained in Punching Out, Daniels creatively manipulates the poetic devices of imagery, allusion, language, and rhythm to vividly describe the oppressive environment of the factory and the demoralizing effects of work repetitive on his workers. chooses to highlight Ford's ironic approach to its workers, such is the manufacturer's slogan. Quality seems to be the priority in Daniels' portrayal as long as it doesn't hinder results. Buying a cheap radio from a merchant who assures him that he buys "quality goods", (author's emphasis), the author curses the malfunctioning machine, telling himself that he should "know everything on quality by how". The conveniently placed slash in the title “Quality/Control” once again highlights the company's ambivalent stance on quality versus profits. In the poem,...... middle of paper ......over depicts the utopian vision of a mural by Diego Rivera showing all types of workers, black and white, young and old, working together to the common cause of the automobile industry. Jim Daniels' more troubling vision shows that the real leveling effect of industry comes not from some socialist unity of the world's workers, but from stripping every worker equally of their human dignity. Daniels is able to capture, through the simplest gestures and stories, the desperation of auto workers. In “Old Green,” he tells the story of a worker who retires after nearly half a century of dedication to the company, based on an aerial photo of the factory. “As hard as you look for it, you will never find it,” notes Daniels, and all of his poetry eloquently reflects this plight of the worker. Works Cited Daniels, Jim Punching Out Detroit: Wayne State University Press., 1990.

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