詩歌賞析：Baseball and Writing

　　Baseball and Writing

　　by Marianne Moore

　　(Suggested by post-game broadcasts)

　　Fanaticism?　No.　Writing is exciting

　　and baseball is like writing.

　　You can never tell with either

　　how it will go

　　or what you will do;

　　generating excitement——

　　a fever in the victim——

　　pitcher， catcher， fielder， batter.

　　Victim in what category?

　　Owlman watching from the press box?

　　To whom does it apply?

　　Who is excited?　Might it be I?

　　It's a pitcher's battle all the way——a duel——

　　a catcher's， as， with cruel

　　puma paw， Elston Howard lumbers lightly

　　back to plate.　(His spring

　　de-winged a bat swing.)

　　They have that killer instinct;

　　yet Elston——whose catching

　　arm has hurt them all with the bat——

　　when questioned， says， unenviously，

　　"I'm very satisfied.　We won."