Nature Imagery
Long before the days of domed stadiums with retractable roofs, baseball was a game played exclusively in the great outdoors. It was, and still is, a game directly associated with seasons. (Just thi...
Doom and Gloom
When we read "Casey at the Bat" for the first time, it's easy to assume that the hero is going to come through in the end. That's just what we're used to thanks, in part, to Hollywood giving almost...
Violence and Anger
There are several places in "Casey at the Bat" where you might get the sense that Mudville fans need to take an anger management course. They are a pretty angry, aggressive bunch. In fact, the poem...