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    Casey Bat Anticlimax

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    Casey at the Bat is a well-known poem, written by Ernest Thayer, about baseball. The plot of the story is that the Mudville baseball team is down, 2-4, with two outs, late in the ninth. Two of the worst batters get on base, then their best batter, Casey, steps up to bat. Ultimately, Casey strikes out, and Mudville loses. Many people that haven’t read this poem before expect a drastically different ending. What would this kind of ending be called? The ending of this story in particular would be called

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    Written by Ernest Lawrence Thayer in 1887, Casey at Bat is a narrative American poem and story, telling of a baseball’s game’s final half-inning between the home team Mudville, and another team. The poem has a main character named Mighty Casey, the team’s star hitter. Ultimately, Casey loses the game for his Mudville team at the end of the poem because he strikes out. Casey at the Bat’s theme is baseball with its tone being both exciting and suspenseful. Its tone also begins calmly, getting eager

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    miracle and win the game for his hometown Mudville. On the flipside, once Casey struck out I would cue the sound effect of a sad trombone, and leave everyone with pure disappointment. “But there is no joy in Mudville: Mighty Casey has struck out.” (Thayer Line #52) That quote from the poem “Casey at the Bat” would be the final line of the movie while the sad trombone played in the background. Clearly, the simple use of music or sound can be quite effective in the perception of

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    Edgar Estlin Cummings The life of Edgar Estlin Cummings starts on October 14, 1894 with his birth to Edward and Rebecca Haswell Clarke Cummings. At the age of sixteen he enters Harvard College, and begins to write poetry for Harvard Monthly. After Harvard, he joins Ambulance Corps, and sails to France to participate in World War I. Soon after his arrival he gets arrested and imprisoned for three months in a French detention camp on suspicion of disloyalty1. On New Years Day he is released

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    Edward Estlin Cummings was an American poet – the second most widely read poet in the United States, after Robert Frost – born in 1894. He was immensely popular, especially among younger readers for his work; he experimented radically with form, punctuation, spelling and syntax. The majority of his poems turn to the subjects of love, war, and sex, with such simplistic language, abandoning traditional techniques to create new means of poetic expression. “Somewhere I have never travelled”, is a very

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    The Legacy of E.E. Cummings

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    Edward Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. His father was a professor at Harvard, leading Cummings to attend Harvard from 1911-1915 (Poetry for Students vol.3). At a young age Cummings showed a strong interest in poetry and art. His first published poems appeared in the anthology “Eight Harvard poets” in 1917. During WW1 Cummings volunteered for the French-based ambulance service and he spent four years in an internment camp in Normandy on suspicion of treason (Poetry for Students

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    On October 14th, 1894, one of the most creative poets who ever lived, was born. 104 Irving Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts was the childhood home of Edward Estlin Cummings. This is where he began writing, at the early age of three, with the assistance of his imagination and his mother, Rebecca Clarke. Rebecca encouraged young Edward to write verse and keep a journal, along with helping him record his thoughts until he was old enough to write himself. He grew up surrounded by many forms of nature

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    “Moore alleged that Proctor testified that he found "Bullet 3" consistent with having been fired from Sacco's Colt despite having confided earlier to District Attorney Katzmann that he did not believe "Bullet 3" came from the defendant's gun. Judge Thayer

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    “ It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” E.E Cummings. Edward Estlin Cummings was born In 1894 and Lived in Cambridge Massachusetts. E.E Cummings went to Harvard University. E.E Cummings died on September 3,1962 In North Conway, New Hampshire. E.E Cummings was a painter and painted lots of things. The Question is How does E.E Cummings create meaning using sight and sound? E.E Cummings creates meaning in his poetry by using Visual techniques and Auditory techniques. In the beginning

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    A science writer by the name of Carol Ezzell is the author of the article called “ Clocking Cultures. Since as the early 1990s, Ezzell works as a writer and editor at Scientific American, a popular American science magazine that focuses on mainly on biology and technology. Ezzell also work at science related organizations like Science News, Bio/World and Nature. Ezzell have received an award for her journalism within the field of science by the National Association of Science Writers and the Pan

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