Casey At The Is Bat Analysis

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Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Casey at the is bat is about a man named Casey who plays baseball in the final inning. When things are not looking too good he steps up to the plate. The mighty Casey misses the ball three time and strikes out. The home team of Mudville is loses four to two.
The poem communicates to its main idea, image, or message very well. From reading the whole poem you can tell that Casey plays baseball and gets striked out. In stanza nine you get the sense that the imagery is turning more dark.Things start to take kind of an ugly turn in stanza 9. The imagery turns pretty dark and violent. The bleachers are "black with people" That doesn't give us a very happy, sunny, day at the ballpark feeling. The message

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