baseball as a metaphor for life
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When people think about the "Great American Past time," the only sport that should come to one's mind is baseball. Baseball has been around for hundreds of years, which is why it is a part of everyday life, along with being a very popular sport for entertainment purposes. With all this being said, baseball is considered to contain many, many metaphors that come in accordance with everyday life. From metaphors such as the famous Meat Loaf song, "Paradise by the Dashboard Light," which talks about a young couple and how they are "rounding the bases" while in the young man's car, to metaphors which can portray a baseball game, and at the same time, metaphorically speaks about a rain storm.
In Martin Espada's poem, "Rain Delay: Toledo Mud Hens, July 8, 1994," this is precisely the main metaphor in the story. Espada constructs a metaphor about a storm approaching, from the time the pitcher begins his windup and throws the pitch, to the time he speaks about the mascots. All of these events construct a main metaphor about a rain storm.
Not only does Espada speak about a metaphor for a storm approaching, but he also uses very distinct and precise language to speak about how the fans remain loyal to their team even though it is beginning to rain and they all leave the field, but the fans remain loyal to their home team.
Martin Espada was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York in 1957. Not only did he do much of his work within the United States, (including other large cities such as Amherst, Massachusetts), but he also visited Nicaragua where he conducted his work as a radio journalist...