Baron Wormser dramatizes the conflict between player and player in his poem titled,“In Baseball.” Particularly as the conflict relates to the poet’s conception of success and how it is attained and determined. Wormser uses imagery and certain expressions to convey hardships and triumphs of everyday life. In addition, the poet continuously contemplates the notion that every moment leads to a certain fate as well as how every action reveals a new facet of someones personality. “Neither forces nor bodies equivocate,” portrays Baron Wormser’s sarcasm. He is stating that no individual would ever lie or conceal the truth in order to succeed. I believe Wormser says this to sarcastically emphasis that many people do equivocate. The second line, “Each …show more content…
Reality makes it so an individual can realistically visualize the world and their future. “Reality, being precious, becomes a game,” symbolizes how life is precious as well as a battle. To many individuals life becomes a game, a mere competition against other spectators whom were not even aware of their own participation. However, the following line, “…nature-like, no two things are the same-.” explains how no two people or things are the same, implying that there is no need for game. The last line in the second stanza, “Whatever is remarkable is nicknamed,” exemplifies how remarkable things are eventually corrupted and condemned. Nicknames are humorously used to pervasively insult or change an individual’s …show more content…
The author chooses to compare the the hardships of warring Greek to the hardships of people living on a smaller scale. “On a smaller scale are yet quiveringly real.” This line states that no matter who you are, your hardships are as real as someone’s fighting in an actual battle. Furthermore, no one has the right to tell you that your problems are irrelevant compared to other individuals. The last two lines of the stanza figuratively describes how in life it is player against player and how the concept of competition is exciting. “Player against player on a simple field, It’s the keenness of conflict that appeals.” The fifth stanza question relates to the poet’s conception of success and how it is attained and determined. The first line, “To the citizen so sick of the abstract “they,” describes how many Americans are tired of individuals saying their success is derived from the help of others. Wormser’s conception of success that it is “neither created nor feigned.” Achievement is not created, pretended, but within. In America no day goes wasted or pitied.”Here, there is no such thing as a beggared
Hutch, the main character of The Big Field, has played baseball all of his life. He has always played shortstop, the same position that his father dreamed of playing as a professional. “Hutch, had always thought of himself as the captain of any infield he’d ever been a part of” (Lupica 1). Hutch finds himself being demoted to second base because there is another player, Darryl, on his new team that is expected to go pro and also plays shortstop. Hutch struggles because he does not want to play second base and his father does not support him because he does not want baseball to break Hutch’s dreams like it did his own. Hutch is betrayed by his father and Darryl when he finds them practicing together. Hutch has to learn to adjust and eventually becomes friends with Darryl, the up and coming shortstop. He understands that if he wants to win, then he needs to work together with Darryl. His father also comes around and finally gives Hutch his approval. Students should read this book in a high school English classroom because it demonstrates how relationships can be difficult, but teamwork can help to solve many issues.
The poem Loony Bin Basketball shows deeper meaning that even we cannot go to; my understanding of this poem is that the perspective of the person writing this poem is of someone stuck in a lunatic asylum, imagining themselves playing a basketball game with their friends. The first quote from the poem that I found helpful in my literary analysis was: “Catatonic Bill who's normal talent was to schlub days in a tub chair” this line supports my analysis because it describes one of the friends. I picked this line because it described what type of asylum and the people in it; Bill was a person with catatonia, a syndrome that makes you mimic people's speech and movements, not being able to move on your own. Furthermore, if Bill wasn’t able to move
Without the use of stereotypical behaviours or even language is known universally, the naming of certain places in, but not really known to, Australia in ‘Drifters’ and ‘Reverie of a Swimmer’ convoluted with the overall message of the poems. The story of ‘Drifters’ looks at a family that moves around so much, that they feel as though they don’t belong. By utilising metaphors of planting in a ‘“vegetable-patch”, Dawe is referring to the family making roots, or settling down somewhere, which the audience assumes doesn’t occur, as the “green tomatoes are picked by off the vine”. The idea of feeling secure and settling down can be applied to any country and isn’t a stereotypical Australian behaviour - unless it is, in fact, referring to the continental
“If you build it, he will come” (Kinsella 1). These words of an announcer jump start a struggle for Ray Kinsella to ease the tragic life of Shoeless Joe Jackson. Ray hears a voice of an announcer which leads him to build a baseball field that brings Shoeless Joe Jackson onto the field. However, this field puts his family on the verge of bankruptcy which is just one of the struggles Ray Kinsella is presented in his life. Shoeless Joe Jackson is no stranger to having no money, as he was only making a measly $1.25 as a kid struggling to support his family. He never attended school and was illiterate throughout his entire life. The struggle is completely the same with Ray Kinsella growing up, as he is forced into baseball, which ultimately makes him run away from home. Ray’s hate is Joes love. Joe loves baseball and makes it to the major leagues, but it doesn’t last. Joe’s career is cut short due to the fact he is accused of throwing the World Series, and banned from baseball forever. Rays’s father would have loved it if his son made it to the major leagues because he thought Ray had the potential and talent. However, his only dream was simple, he wanted to play a game of catch with his son, unfortunately, he passed away and he never got to see his son after he ran away. Shoeless Joe Jackson’s death wasn’t any better, as he died guilty of throwing the World Series which was the biggest sports tragedy to date. Tragedies are not uncommon phenomena, Ray Kinsella and Shoeless Joe Jackson have the unfortunate luck to go through a struggle fulfilled and uphill battle in what is suppose to be a wonderful thing, life.
Currently in the United States, many of us are afraid of the future. There have been many recent events that have stirred up fear in this country, especially tensions regarding human rights. In Carolyn Forché’s “The Colonel,” the speaker tells us her story of when she had to deal with the mistreatment of others. The speaker is telling us her story of meeting the colonel to show us the horrible things that have happened in the fight for justice and to encourage us to speak up. She tells us this story because she does not want others to end up the way that the ears did. The speaker wants us to stay strong and fight for justice when we begin to live in a state of constant fear.
After discovering a God-given talent, a young boy struggles to achieve his only dream; to become the best there ever was. Baseball is all he has ever known, so he prevails through the temptations and situations laid before him by those out to destroy his career. His hopes and dreams outweigh all the temptations along his journey. These hopes, dreams, and temptations are depicted through archetypes in the movie The Natural.
For this rhetorical analysis paper I chose one of my favorite, and most famous, sports speeches of all time, Lou Gehrig’s farewell to baseball address. Lou Gehrig was a famous baseball player in the 1920’s and 30’s. Lou didn’t really need to use a attention getting introduction, he was well known and loved by so many that people piled into Yankee Stadium to watch and listen to him give this speech. Although he didn’t need an attention getter, he began his speech with one of the greatest baseball quotes of all time, “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” (Gehrig, 1939) Every single time I hear or read that opening line it sends chills down my spine and stops me for a moment to reflect on everything that is going on in my own life.
During Graff’s childhood, he was not able to relate to readings that he was given in school. Instead, Graff was interested in baseball. Being that Graff was interested in baseball, he would often find himself reading books and magazines about baseball and baseball pla...
This game of a stick and ball has captivated the United States during good and bad times. In either time most of us today can remember stories of players from the late 1800’s to early 1900’s. These are legendary figures in the sport of baseball that have are celebrated as hero’s and in scandal, i...
In the poem “Casey at the Bat” and the story “David and Goliath,” a comparison of David and Casey shows differences and similarities. The first similarity between Casey and David is that they were both faced with gigantic problems. While in “Casey at the Bat,” Casey was faced by the crowd of “ten thousand eyes” that wanted him to save the game and win it for the Mudville nine. The poem says, “Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with dirt;Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt,” and this means that Casey had a lot of people watching him and judging him while at bat. In “David and Goliath,” David was faced with the biggest problem of battling and defeating Goliath. David stated that he was confident
"To an Athlete Dying Young" is one of Housman's regularly anthologized poems. Its peaceful, despairing tone, its topic of the solace of death, and its effortlessness of structure and style join to make the poem an exemplary festival of discharge from the challenges of life. In this short requiem, composed upon the passing of a youthful, praised competitor, Housman progresses the thought that it is obviously better to kick the bucket in one's prime, while one can be associated with his or her energetic achievements, than to wind up decrepit, overlooked, disregarded, or supplanted in the recollections and hearts of one's townspeople. With the run of the mill confined, perceptive tone regularly utilized by Housman, the speaker hails the dead youth
As Casey walked up with style and pride, the crowd cheered loudly. He was showing hubris, and to show hubris means to show overwhelming pride. Casey’s hubris showed greatly as the crowd cheered him on, ultimately causing him to feel overly cocky and fail.
Hunger, is a human instinct, that comes from deep within the heart. It is a form of solitude and deprivation that no one can completely understand nor quench. Ortiz’s poems shows the culture of his people through a man torn between two identities, both Indian and American lifestyles. As Simon’s craving longed to fit into both societies , he addressed the origin of human culture and how Indians and Americans differ ethically, but share the same world. Through the power of writing, Ortiz also introduced social issues, humanity crises, and politics into his one-of-a-kind poem. The ironic and sad tone of the poem can be contracted with prolonged humor hidden beneath the surface. Living on a Native American reserve located near Albuquerque, New
William Blake’s 1793 poem “The Tyger” has many interpretations, but its main purpose is to question God as a creator. Its poetic techniques generate a vivid picture that encourages the reader to see the Tyger as a horrifying and terrible being. The speaker addresses the question of whether or not the same God who made the lamb, a gentle creature, could have also formed the Tyger and all its darkness. This issue is addressed through many poetic devices including rhyme, repetition, allusion, and symbolism, all of which show up throughout the poem and are combined to create a strong image of the Tyger and a less than thorough interpretation of its maker.
Langston Hughes is the author of the poem ‘trumpet player’ among other poems that weaves in the contemporary ideas relating to racial issues, past memories and jazz music (Alexander and Ferris 55). Essentially, his themes centered on African- American made him an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The poet was born in Joplin, Missouri in the year 1902. His first work on poetry was published in the year 1921 (Baird 599). From there on, he wrote innumerable works of poetry, plays as well as proses (Baird 599). The poet died in the year 1967 out of prostate cancer complications. The trumpet player is one of the most important works done by Hughes. The title of the poem introduces the scene but it is quite figurative. At its face value, the title