Casey At The Bat

The story “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer is a story about a baseball player who everyone thinks will hit the ball to win the game. Casey is similar to music idol Taylor Swift because they both have fans who believe they are almost perfect people. In this poem, the author shows Casey’s power over the fans as well as how this affects Casey’s attitude and his performance in the game through a simile and by writing the phrase, “There was pride in Casey’s bearing and a smile on Casey’s face” in the characterization of Casey. Thayer uses a simile to show Casey’s power over his fans in the poem. The lines that use the simile in the text are, “From the benches, black with people, there went up a muffled roar,/Like the beating of the storm-waves on a stern and distant shore.”(Thayer, p.2) The simile in “Casey At The Bat” compares the roar of anger from the fans when the second strike was called to a beating of storm-waves. That means that the yelling from the stands was loud. The author uses the simile to give the reader a wave

The two lines of the poem that show how Casey’s power over his fans affected his performance are, “Then from 5,000 throats and more there rose a lusty yell;.../For Casey, mighty Casey, was advancing to the bat.” The evidence shows that the fans are excited for Casey to bat because they believe he will hit the ball. The fans get excited about Casey batting so that makes Casey excited to bat and wants to satisfy his fans. The author describes Casey to be cocky so that he could show how the fans made Casey think he was really good at baseball. The phrases, “pride in Casey’s bearing,” and “haughty grandeur,” show how he was cocky and full of himself. This affected his performance in the game by Casey waiting for the last pitch so he could make the game more