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Sign For My Father Who Stressed The Bunt By David Bottoms Summary

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In“Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt”, David Bottoms narrates the poem through a child. The child speaks of how his father tries to teach him how to bunt the ball, as in the sport Baseball. The father tirelessly tries to demonstrate how, but the son focuses more on “homer[s]”, as that would grow more fame for him: “I admired your style, but not enough to take my eyes off the bank that served as our center-field fence” (Bottoms 9-11). As he grows and gains fame as a Baseball player, the boy starts to regret not quite listening to his father, and writes the poem to him as an apology. The use of imagery in this poem forms a picture in the mind of the father teaching the son how to bunt. The line “I watched from the infield, the mound,
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