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The Abominable Baseball Bat Analysis
The Abominable Baseball Bat

In the poem "The Abominable Baseball Bat," by X.J. Kennedy, a batter swings and misses the ball and strike three is called. The bat is changed into a vampire showing that the anger the batter is feeling towards striking out is caused by the vampire sucking the life out of the batter. Now every time the batter goes up to bat he can still feel the vampire's bite and so he looks to walk instead of swing at the ball. The batter in this poem seems to be in a hitting slump and he swings so hard and tries so hard to hit the ball, but he ends up hitting nothing at all. The bat then mysteriously turns into a vampire and latches on to the batter. In this part of the poem, X.J. Kennedy is showing the symbolism in
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