Casey at the Bat

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

Casey at the bat The author of Casey at the Bat uses humor all throughout the poem. He does this to discribe Caseys experience. There are multiple examples all throughout the poem. The first example is in paragraph four when the author writes "There was Jimmy safe at second and Flynn a-hugging third." This is an example because it uses a hyberbolie when he says "Flynn a-hugging third." Flynn is not actually hugging third base. the author is simple trying to imply

Casey is such an arrogant snob and now I can prove it to him now. It was our big championship game and Casey screwed up. It was towards the end of the game. There was one inning left in the game between the Mudville 9 and the Grandville 10. It was 4-2 score with grandville in the lead. And we still had yet to put Casey at bat. Cooney struck out, after him Burrows did the same. I thought, Do not put Casey at the bat, or else it will be the end for us, I can feel it. So Flynn went, struck the ball

 when one spectator cheered “it's Casey next up at bat!”. The  crowd turned in optimism to watch what they had been waiting for all game, Casey at the  bat. Casey, the crowd favourite, the only one who could possibly bring the mudville nine  any sort of a victory, approached the plate with his chest puffed out in a strong cocky  manner. He allowed the first pitch to pass him by, as though it was unworthy of his attention  and skill, with the second pitch the

In the book Casey at the Bat the author uses humor to describe Casey's experiences. There are many examples of humor used in this poem. "Five thousand tongues applauded when he wiped them on his shirt" This shows humor because your tongue doesn't applauded your hands do. "that aint my style" is another example of how Ernest uses humor This is showing humor by when the Ernest is trying ti convey humor when Casey strikes out he is trying to pump himself and the crowd up. The author uses

In the poem “Casey At the Bat” and the biblical story of “David and Goliath”, a comparison shows many sides of the story. The first similarity is that they both were confident in their ability to succeed. When David said, “Sir, I have killed lions and bears that way, and I can kill this worthless Philistine. He shouldn’t have made fun of the army of the living God!” and when Casey said, “That ain’t my style,”. Casey was so confident in his ability to succeed that he lost a necessary thing, and David

and how he let his fans down, and lost the game. An example of humor in "Casey at the Bat" is in stanza two, when the author says "We'd put up even money now, with Casey at the bat." I see it as humor because everyone in the stands thought that Casey would hit the ball no matter what. I also find it funny because everyone in the stands got so happy and excited. Another example of humor in the poem is in stanza 6 when Casey doffed his hat. I think that's funny because he was so confident and thought

In the poem “ Casey at the bat” and the story of “David and Goliath” a comparison shows that there are many differences in the story and the poem and many similarities. The first similarity between Casey and David is that they both had faith that they would win. David had faith that he would win because David stated “ I’ll knock you down and cut off your head,” this quote shows that David had all faith that he would beat Goliath. Also in the poem “Casey at the bat” Casey had faith that he would win

In the poem “Casey at Bat” and story “David and Goliath,” a comparison of David and Casey shows differences and similarities. Here is how they are both alike. Casey and David are both alike because they both had a battle and they felt like they were going to win that battle. I know this because in the articles it said that the people knew that Casey was going to hit the ball and if the people believe that means that Casey would believe. It also said in one of the articles that David felt like he

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