Rodney Jones (10/12)

I think Rodney Jones is making the argument that words are more powerful than images. The poem says, "no image like the image of language." Jones means that an image cannot achieve the same things that language can. In the last stanza, he talks about reaching out for an idea that is lost- perhaps lost through the medium of image. Image cannot achieve the nuances in an an argument that language can. The metaphorical aspect of dumping a coconut full of alcohol into the ocean down a ways from the beach would simply look two dimensional and the symbolism would be lost.