Analysis Of The Poem 'Batcasey At The Bat'

Every living thing on this earth has at least one thing in common, life. Every person/creature chooses to live their lives in their own way. If one should reach the short poem “the lesson of the moth” they would see two very different views on how one should live their life. Some people choose to live like the safe Roach, some people choose to live like the rash moth, and some people choose to live with a beautiful blend of the two.

Through my entire life I had been playing baseball. Baseball was the one thing that consumed my life. It was a job to me, not a passion. That was the first problem that resulted in a complete 360 in my life. When I started to play baseball, it was in a way satisfying and fun. It was something every little kid did over the weekend, as the family watched them sit on the ground pick flowers and play with the dust. Something so simple that made me feel so, existential. It gave me so much, it was great. As I began to realise the potential life this game could give me at around age 9, I began to become serious about baseball. I quickly began to feel like a superstar at the local Little League. “This is great!” I thought. Running circles around everyone, people would come to the field to see MaHall’s team play. As the years grew on, leading my teams to championship games years in a row, it would come crashing down. When I was 11, I was on the Dodgers, we were the best team in the league, and we knew it. Let’s go back in time for a bit. It’s the last inning and we are down by just one. Here I go up to bat with a man on first base. As I walk up to the plate I could hear the catcher say, “oh no.” He knew who I was, as everyone did. “I’ve hit many walk offs and clutch hits before, how was this different?” I remember thinking. Well past Jonnie, here’s how it’s different, it’s the championship game,

The title of this poem by Don Marquis is "The Lesson of the Moth" because it is a poem about the thoughts of a moth and his outlook on life. The overall poem would be considered argumentative being the moth is trying to inform the man that he should live his life and let his hair down a little more instead of relishing the everyday routines of life. This is shown in paragraph 3 when the moth says “But we get bored with the routine/and crave beauty/and excitement.”(18-20)Another example of the passage being argumentative is when the man says “and before I could argue him/out of his philosophy.”(43-44) Don Marquis expressed several tones

Is it possible to create a successful movie from just one simple, abrupt poem? The poem “Casey at the Bat” is about a baseball game that is reaching its final moments and the main character Casey must step up to help his team. Although, two of Casey’s teammates must bat before him, which the audience was nervous about. There were two outs when his teammates stepped up to the plate, and miraculously both of them were able to get on base. When Casey moved into the batter’s box everyone in the entire ballpark knew Casey was going to get a hit and win the game. Alas, Casey was a little too confident and after just three pitches the mighty Casey was put away back to the dugout. The narrative “Casey at the Bat,” will be turned into a movie and these will be the main points made in the movie.

Baseball Dirt in the air, swirling Like a funnel cloud Cracks Everywhere Off the Bat they go Soaring slow Catching flight Flying high, like an airplane Hearing, the crack of the bat Seeing, it lifting up and taking flight

Ernest Thayer's poem Casey at the bat shows the reader a crowds feeling demonstrated at the baseball game, The author uses rhyming , and metaphors to show the reader humor in the poem . Thayer uses imagery to give the reader a picture of what happened when a town supported their hero in america's favorite pastime , baseball

What would you do if you had the opportunity to make 3 wishes? Would you do it? The story "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W Jacobs starts with Mr.White's good friend, Sergeant Major Morris coming into their house one day and introduces the Monkey's Paw to them that he got from India that he did not want anymore and also tried to sell. The Monkey's Paw could grant 3 wishes but some say it brings good luck with grave consequences. This is what happened to the White family. The Monkey's Paw brought great calamity to the whole family. In the end, I think that the father Mr.White is the most responsible for the family's sorrow.

W.E.B Du Bois makes points of having a double consciousness and being behind a veil. While Booker T. Washington points out that there is a dignity to be found in fruits from labor. In the reading of “Long Black Song,” by Richard Wright, he uses both of these points in his text to make the story come alive. Although, creatively both Du Bois and Washington’s points can be found hidden within the text; it is clear within this short story that Wright leaned to agree more with Du Bois points than he did with Washington’s points.

For my poem I decided to look at Angel Butcher by Phillip Levine. For a poet that later became known for his poems that supposedly authentically depict working class factory life in the Detroit factories, Levine’s early poetry is almost allegorical – complete with the kind of poetic artfulness that is generally believed to be against reality and actuality. For one thing, it’s full of angels, which is probably the last category of character you expected to see in a work by this type of author. And somehow of course, they are very common in his works. In many of Levine’s early works depicting industrial life, angels are very commonplace and are almost always handled with violence.

In the poem The Shark by E.J. Pratt it creates vivid imagery and symbolism when reading it. The main image or symbol directly is the shark. The sharks’ image can be seen as calm, puzzling and unexplainable. Unlike that of most sharks this one is different. The shark is smooth, patiently awaiting the time to make his right move. Effortlessly he is described as “lithely and leisurely” the way he swam, cutting the water with his fin creates an image of his enormous body floating through the water with great speed and ease.

Another 40 minutes passed, before we were told to grab our helmets and bats. I stepped up to the plate, my hands felt slick, my knees weak, and my ears pounding. The skinny man threw the first pitch. I swung and connected, a little too late and the ball went soaring wide right, into foul territory.

A Blessing: Poem Analysis James Wright's poem "A Blessing" starts off with a well-traveled "highway," not a forested trail, but this speaker decides to get off at least for a few moments. Pulling off the highway, the speaker moves over a fence and comes within reach of two horses grazing in a grassland. A puzzlingly peaceful encounter arises. Nevertheless the whole mood of "A Blessing" is one of humble awe and "happiness," an existing of longing and "loneliness" in the poem allusions that this gift of short-lived joy is all too uncommon.

Beautiful. That is how I would describe her. Rayah Lou’ren Gibson was the absolute light of my life. She was born on Thursday, August 14th, 2008. She was not my biological daughter, but she was and always will be my baby girl—my little princess. I often called her my angel. She loved dancing and singing, she loved the movie Frozen, the song, “Do You Want To Build A Snowman?”, and her favorite color was purple. She loved her friends, especially Alina.

With the three poems “next to of course god america i”, “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls”, and “[Buffalo Bill’s] e e cummings paints a very grim picture of American ideals and shows his disdain for much of the cultural identity that Americans share. In the poems “next to of course god america i” and “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls” he lampoons politicians and a certain class of women. In “[Buffalo Bill’s]” he declares a cultural icon to be “defunct” and within the other two poems he calls out many other American institutions including rabid nationalism, the protestant church, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. On top of everything that e e cummings sees as wrong with America, he also characterizes the average American as extremely gullible and easily fooled by exalted members of society as seen in “next to of course god america i”, “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls”, and to a lesser extent in “[Buffalo Bill’s]”. The poem “next to of course god america i” is a parody of a speech one would expect to hear coming from a politician, except in this speech the politician comes off as incomprehensible and comically patriotic. The way that the speech consists almost entirely of allusions to national anthems and other platitudes in an attempt to win the favor of the common man is a harsh critique on the state of American politics as well as on the average voter. Similar to this, the women in “the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished

2. The ending sentence of the story is ironic because, when leading up to it, it is established that Mathilde Loisel spent ten years of her life paying back debt. This debt, of coarse, being from having to buy a new necklace after losing the one that she borrowed from Mme. Forestier. The ending is ironic because it tells the reader that the original necklace was fake and that Mathilde Loisel had basically just wasted ten years of her life working very hard at bad jobs to pay for something that she only bought because she thought that she lost a real diamond necklace.