Baseball Poem Analysis

Honestly, my experience with poetry has had its ups and downs. Until this unit, I had never read a really good poem. I had a less than great attitude coming into this unit. In the past grades, I dreaded anything that involved poetry. The reason I picked the poem “ Baseball “ is because, I really like how the poet, Bill Zavatsky wrote the last couple paragraphs. Also the way Zavatsky changes the tone of the poem flawlessly is astounding. So far this poetry unit has taught me how to not judge a book by it's cover. Over the last couple of years I have, this year I am hoping to change.

This poem concerns memory of one big game Little League game that is important to the speaker. In the first part of the story, he describes how his team was not good enough at baseball! The speaker describes “ Deep lettered hats and classic uniforms ” that the team wore. Then he talks
He remembered the biggest moment. His indents in the last stanza really make the poem complete. For example he put indents on the most important moments. This is good because it make the reader stop and think about what happened. In the first couple of lines in the poem the mood is sad and gloomy. Throughout the poem the poet gradually changes the mood. He does this by keeping suspense throughout the poem. The big picture or greater message of this poem is, when life gets you down you just have to get back up and keep going. In this poem it is a metaphor. He uses it by adding the parts of when he was a awful and un-clutch player. But then in the biggest game he steps up and makes the winning play! In some ways this is the poet's life. When the poet was younger he was trying to get a teaching job. He wanted to teach English. He was being hired and then fired. The poet was in a tough spot. So then he started writing poetry. After a couple big poems were released Bill got a head teaching job at Trinity! I think it is really cool how he reflects his life in