Casey At The Bat Irony

The poem "Casey At The Bat' uses humor. It is very ironic because you think he will hit the best sky high home run ever but he doesn`t and missed most on purpose. Also most stories end with an happy ending, But not this story.

"Casey At The Bat" by using lot`s of onamatapias like "if only Casey could get a WHACK at that". It also uses humor by having similie`s like"the beating of the storm`s waves on a stern distance shore. The author wants the reader to feel emotions and excitment while reading his poem.

Towards the end of the poem, It completly shifts from being excitment, peace, and then sadness, That is an example of irony. The author uses irony in the poem because he wants the reader to sense imagrey and feelings while reading. He