Put the shell to your ear and hear the new warning: You die by blacks. . . Put the shell to your ear and hear the new warning: White standards are overrun by society.
B. Casey is upset by the townspeople’s anger.
The townspeople being
angry at Casey never quite subsides throughout the majority of the poem.
In fact, it makes its presence known even toward the end of the poem as
Casey comes up to bat in the ninth inning as is evidenced by “A dismal
groan in chorus came; a scowl was on each face |When Casey walked up,
bat in hand, and slowly took his place.” And, readers can tell he is
upset at this in the lines that ensue: “His bloodshot eyes in fury
gleamed, his teeth were clenched in hate; | He gave his cap a vicious
hook and pounded on the plate.”