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The text is filled with references to baseball as it was in 1888, which in many ways is not far removed from today's version. As a work, the poem encapsulates much of the appeal of baseball, including the involvement of the crowd. It also has a fair amount of baseball jargon that can pose challenges for the uninitiated.
The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast is also the title of a 1973 picture book by Alan Aldridge and William Plomer, loosely based on the poem. This greatly expanded and altered the original work, focusing more on the animals' preparations for the Ball.
Jarrell, who served in the Army Air Forces, provided the following explanatory note: . A ball turret was a Plexiglas sphere set into the belly of a B-17, B-24, B-25, B-32 and inhabited by two .50 caliber machine guns and one man, a short small man.
The report claimed that the incident in question happened on January 1, 1840, and likened it to a story called "Death at the Toilet" from Passages from the Diary of a London Physician (1838), [5] which tells of a young woman who is determined to go a ball despite the fact that she suffers from heart problems; because of cold weather in her room ...
The Dada Manifesto (French: Le Manifeste DaDa) is a short text written by Hugo Ball detailing the ideals underlying the Dadaist movement. It was presented at Zur Waag guildhall in Zürich at the first public Dada gathering on July 14, 1916. [1]
The Duchess of Richmond's ball was a ball hosted by Charlotte Lennox, Duchess of Richmond, in Brussels on 15 June 1815, the night before the Battle of Quatre Bras. Charlotte's husband Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond , was in command of a reserve force in Brussels, which was protecting that city in case Napoleon Bonaparte invaded.
"The Victory Ball" (sometimes referred to as "The Victory dance") is an anti-war poem written by Alfred Noyes and published by The Saturday Evening Post in 1920. The poem is based on a celebration thrown by the United Kingdom British aristocracy after the Armistice ending WW1, in which Alfred Noyes was invited and in attendance.
"Take Me Out to the Ball Game" is a 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer which has become the unofficial anthem of North American baseball, although neither of its authors had attended a game before writing the song. [1] The song's chorus is traditionally sung as part of the seventh-inning stretch of a baseball game ...