This poem is by farThayer’s most famous poem. He wrote it in 1888 about baseball and published it under a pseudonym inThe Daily Examiner.It is now one of the best-loved poems in American literature. The first four lines read: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day...
The poem was just three short sections.2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文 The real reason why prices were, and still are, too high is complex, and no short discussion can satisfactorily explain this problem.2015年高考英语江苏卷 单项填空 原文 Those words made me see clearly that when ...
In this short poem by Randall Jarrell, a World War II turret gunner was gunned down by enemy warfare. As stated in the third sentence, “Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turr...
1. the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed 2. accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference 3. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base ...
The words of the poet John Milton in his epic poem ‘Samson Agonistes,’ which I studied in my dim and distant schooldays (A level English) came back to me. (Dorothea Shefer-Vanson) Echoes of the Poet John Milton in GazaRead More » ...
Yesterday’s @VisualInspiration prompt on Mastodon gave us an image of an angel of death on a battlefield and a few lines of Byron’s “The Destruction of Sennacherib.” I chose to write a poem instead of a story and I used Byron’s meter, for the most part. It’s anapestic tetramet...
‘Project Mulberry’ happens in a contemporary setting outside Chicago. Park’s book, ‘Archer’s Quest,’ brings an authentic figure along with current occasions. Park shares her energy for baseball in her book ‘Keeping Score.’ Park’s book, ‘A Long Walk to Water,’ includes family comp...
As narrated by the director Bud Luckey in a sort of 6/8 time country and western poem, this short is light, lilting, funny as can be and packs a wonderful message. It is not so much about tolerance as it is about being proud and comfortable about who you are. It is also likely ...
cut - in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball; "he took a vicious cut at the ball" baseball swing, swing stroke, shot - (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand; "it took two strokes to get out of the bu...
Bus 89. Set on a school bus in Paris, a young tween boy is goaded by his older sister and her girlfriend into making contact with the girl of his dreams (who wears black high top chucks) after they find a love poem he wrote to her in his backpack. A film by Adrian Moyse Dullin...