Ari &+Andrew

**May Swenson**
By Andrew Kovacs Rebound- pass Dribble -run Shoot- rebound Three- miss Drive -attack Lay-up- blocked Steal -sprint Effort -shot Miss- tap-in Score!- Win Exhausted -tired Plane- Dallas Win -Plane  Home -Boston   GOOOOOOOO! CELTICS! Analysis of Baseball By May Swenson
 * Analysis of Basketball part 1 **

Bat waits for ball to mate. Ball hates to take bat’s bait. Ball flirts, bat’s late, don’t keep the date. Ball goes in (thwack) to mitt, and goes out (thwack) back to mitt. || Ball fits mitt, but not all the time. Sometimes ball gets hit (pow) when bat meets it, and sails to a place where mitt has to quit in disgrace. That’s about the bases loaded, about 40,000 fans exploded. It’s about the ball, the bat, the mitt, the bases and the fans. It’s done on a diamond, and for fun. It’s about home, and it’s about run. ||
 * It’s about the ball, the bat, and the mitt. Ball hits bat, or it hits mitt. Bat doesn’t hit ball, bat meets it. Ball bounces off bat, flies air, or thuds ground (dud) or it fits mitt.

= Question =

BY [|MAY SWENSON] Body my housemy horse my hound what will I dowhen you are fallen Where will I sleep How will I ride What will I hunt Where can I gowithout my mount all eager and quick How will I know in thicket aheadis danger or treasure when Body my good bright dog is dead How will it beto lie in the skywithout roof or door and wind for an eye With cloud for shift how will I hide? Analysis of basketball part 2 By Ari Kornreich

It's about the ball the hop the rim and you. ball hits rim or goes in hoop

ball flirts with rim on hoop. hoop rejects ball off rim. youshrug in disgrace.

ball goes in hoop fans cheer teammates high-five everyone cheers

it's about the ball the rim you and the fans. it is about basket and it is about ball.

Andrew Kovacs Influence Style From learning about my poet so far, I have learned that my poet ended up becoming a poet just becasue she wanted to. She probably got in to poetry because of her teaching job at school. My poet is not very interseted in other poets but many other poets are interested in her writing abilities. For example the poet Richard Howard said "we are reconized that there is a kind of poetry, as there used to be a kind of love. which does not speak a name." My poet has a very changing theme in her poems that can go from being about a talking knife to being out in the woods alone. There is though one message that stands out clearly in all of these differnt poems. The message is that nothing is meaningless. Also her type of poetry style was that she was a lyrical poet. She never really broke any rules for her poetry but her type of poetry has brought her criyical aclaim. This poem relates to my poetsbecasue her poem was called the analis of baseball but my poem has the same meaning but it is called the analis of basketball. In my poem I tryed to use many common terms of basketball just like my poet had done about baseball. I tried to get the point across of how hard it is to go on a plane and go flying all over the place for the next game. That is how my poem is related to May Swensons poem The Annalist of baseball. Works Cited "Poems & Poets : The Poetry Foundation." //Poetry Foundation//. Web. 10 May 2011. .  Works Cited  "May Swenson." //Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More//. Web. 10 May 2011. . Ari Kornreich  Biography

May Swenson was born on May 28, 1913, in Logan, Utah, the daughter of Swedish immigrants. English was her second language in life. She attended Utah state university, where she received her bachelor’s degree in 1934. After graduating, she spent a year as a reporter in Utah. In 1935 she relocated to New York. There she worked over time as a stenographer, ghostwriter, secretary, and a manuscript reader. Eventually she found herself working for New Directions press in 1951. In 1966, she decided to devote herself entirely to her writing. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she was a poet in residence at various universities. She has published many books, including: Another Animal, 1954, A Cage Of Spikes, 1958, To Mix with Time: New And Selected Poems, 1963, Half Sun Half Sleep, 1967, Poems To Solve, 1966, and Iconographs, 1970. She received many awards, including the Shelly memorial award from the poetry society of America, and also the Bollingen prize from Yale University. Sadly, Ms. Swanson passed away in 1989 in Oceanview, Delaware, but not without leaving a great quote 4 months before her death. She said, “the best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the meaning of a poem.”