Commentary on the Bat by Roethke

and, that’s what I will be talking about a book called “Baseball Great” by Tim Green.Which is a boy named Josh that loves playing baseball but uses steroids to become stronger in baseball.

It was fine for them (pg 185)”. This evidence justifies Shade’s lowered self-esteem. As Shade places himself around the bottom in hierarchy, he holds low self-esteem and ferocious thoughts circle around is head. As, there is a higher rank for the banded bats, i.e they are the “worthy” ones, they will be allowed to walk in the light of day, and the unbanded bats will live their lives, broken, and miserable and will

First literary element the author uses is symbolism. When Mickey Bolitar first breaks into Bat Lady house, who is also known as the strange old woman everyone is afraid of who also never comes out of her house. As he walks through Bat lady house he encounters a black and white photograph with four people with a t-shirt that has a butterfly on it with what looks like an eye on one of the wing. He repeatedly see’s the butterfly symbol throughout the book even on his

Cynthia Lee Kotana says it perfectly when she states in her excerpt, "In the first descriptive octave, personification, the giving of human attributes to inanimate objects, is used to drive home the persuasive mood of the poem." (Kotana, Paragraph 6, Sentence1). She is stating that it is at this point in the poem where Roethke begins to paint a picture of the idea he wants to get across to the reader. It seems possible that he was trying to switch the roles of the humans and the inanimate objects. After all, if it was possible for a pencil to feel sadness, or for a manila folder to feel misery, then is it not possible for a human to feel absolutely nothing? The same nothing that we know all of the inanimate objects around us feel? This was a very great technique used by Roethke in trying to bring the reader to look a little deeper into his poem than just to see "misery" and "sadness" and to think what a dark poem it is. It is truly a great skill and takent to be able to make the reader see that he is bringing the "Dead" to life and the "living" to absolute

The author uses imagery in the poem to enable the reader to see what the speaker sees. For example, in lines 4-11 the speaker describes to us the

When viewing the stanza of the poem “Analysis of Baseball” the author describes the game of baseball. Using the elements personification, onomatopoeia, consonance and, rhymes words. So, therefore the poem can come alive to many baseball fans. The author also uses metaphor to compare bat, ball, and mitt.

The Bat 6 game was everything, the most important event for 6th-grade girls, and this was the 50th game. In 1899 — 49 years before — the women of Barlowe Road and Bear Creek Ridge, at the end of the Oregon Trail, decided the rivalry between their towns had gone on long enough. They planned a ladies softball game and picnic, and the men from both towns showed up and made friends. Over the years, the games continued, and eventually, it became traditional for the 6th-grade girls’ teams to play against each other. It was the only game they played, and they could only be on the team for one year. For the nine girls on each of the teams, it was the most important year of their lives.

Although the visual systems of bats and humans vary in many ways, both visual systems have evolved to benefit each species differently. While humans see life in color with their cones during the day, bats are the kings of nocturnal mammals and are capable of maneuvering throughout the night. It has become clear that bats are capable of so much more then just echolocation from a visual perspective. It is beyond fascinating to realize that what was once thought of as true, is actually false in reality. Therefore, it is safe to say that the phrase “you are as blind as a bat,” can be put to

The development of sports from their early stages, their metamorphosis and evolution to their current form and status is one of the most interesting areas of study. Unfortunately, most writers on such subjects only concentrate on the sport itself and players without exploring other ulterior factors that influence the development of a sport such as the emotional, economic and social environment. The book, Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball by Warren Goldstein is one of the few that have managed to avoid this perennial mistake. This paper is a review of the book,

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The poem “To a Mouse” is about a farmer plowing a field, but accidently runs over a mouse’s nest. The farmer immediately feels bad because the mouse, now, has no place to live and winter is coming. The farmer then realizes that good plans don’t always go the way they are supposed to, no matter if it is for a mouse or a man. The farmer thinks that mice are blessed compared to humans because they live in the present as humans are always regretting their past and planning their future.

What really puts everything into perspective is the claim that the poet might have referred to a lizard because it is a cold-blooded creature and depends upon the sun for its body heat, which is where he thinks his wife's beauty amplifies the most. Therefore this analysis only helps build upon Roethke's level of genuineness, so as to make it obvious that he is in fact very serious about expressing his love for his wife, and that by this point in the poem, the reader should not be questioning his true intentions.

Often at times there are many voices in one poem. These voices represent the different views that come from the same material that are portrayed by the buzz that the bee elicit in the hive. The proposal that Collins is trying to exude is that there is never one way to read a poem. The type of approach will vary with reader and who they are, but by having a radical approach it will help to enhance our understanding of what the poem means. Collins wants the reader to feel free when analyzing a poem: “I want them to waterski across the surface of the poem waving at the author’s name on the shore.” As a teacher you try to pummel depth into your students’ minds and push them into the direction of understanding. The speaker declares that the grapple to illuminating meaning and the amount of time where the reader does not understand adds to the worth of the poem. The parallel to the surface of water, where you have not attained the depth even though you know it’s there is important to how much it takes to find the true meaning of a poem. While reading this poem it have the outlook on how poetry places more of aln emphasis on us to be able to pick apart the undisclosed meaning and essentially to be able to pull apart the poem without a fixed structure. By doing it this way it is able to help the audience to build upon skills to help interpret and understand, which substantially is important throughout any source of literature. We

Nagel explores how it is by all means possible to imagine that there are things humans may never

In addition, the poem contains a satirical, biblical allusion. Brautigan writes, "where mammals and computers/ live together in mutally/ programming harmony." These lines draw a sharp comparison to the famous passage Isaiah 11.6, "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them." This passage refers to peace on earth, the very subject of Brautigan's poem. The reader could conclude that the dangerous beasts made gentle are symbolic of the violent ways of man at its end. Also, the "kid" refers to the new technology of computers, who watch over us in loving grace.