In the poem “Ex basketball” by John White the use of nouns,simile’s, diction, and the tone all contribute to the. The poem is about an man that had all the glory and after high school and it also tell us how great he was at basketball and he has the county record of three hundred ninety points total and the narrator tells about a time that he bucketed thirty eight or forty in one game and they use an omtamatopeia and say his hands where like birds in one game then they say the only thing his hands are doing now is pumping gas,checks oil, and changes flats. They also said that he was tall standing over the idiot pump he also hangs around Mae’s luncheonette and plays pinball and now he smokes those thin kind of cigars
In the poem “Ex basketball” by John White the use of nouns,simile’s, diction, and the tone all contribute to the. The poem is about an man that had all the glory and after high school and it also tell us how great he was at basketball and he has the county record of three hundred ninety points total and the narrator tells about a time that he bucketed thirty eight or forty in one game and they use an omtamatopeia and say his hands where like birds in one game then they say the only thing his hands are doing now is pumping gas,checks oil, and changes flats. They also said that he was tall standing over the idiot pump he also hangs around Mae’s luncheonette and plays pinball and now he smokes those thin kind of cigars