Baseball
...Linda Pastan’s first 2 lines of her poem: When you tried to tell me baseball was a metaphor Someone has already expressed the opinion that baseball is a metaphor for life. In the subsequent lines that follow we discover why. For life: the long, dusty travail around the bases, for instance to try to go home again; the Sacrifice for which you win Life is being described as the long, dusty travail around the bases. The long, dusty travail they are referring to is the hard work that it takes for one to become successful and to get to where they want to be in life. Nothing in life is easy and to acquire what you want you have to work hard to obtain it. Linda continues with: approval but not applause; the way the light close down in the last days of the season- I didn’t believe you. It’s just a way of passing the time, I said And you said: that’s it. Yes. The approval that Linda describ...