How did the gift of baseball affect the author?* it motivated him to create a game that did not require sight.

It reminded him of the fun activities that he could no longer enjoy.

It reinforced his belief that people are often thoughtless.

It offered him the chance to try playing a traditional game.

The poem is an unconventional sonnet; it develops a main idea in the first twelve lines, and is capped by a big thought in the final couplet. the poem follows a narrator describing the industriousness of nature’s creatures, preparing for the coming spring. all of creation is at work, but the speaker is sullen as the only creature he can see who finds himself without an occupation.