Fans’ obsession with autographs are like the Baron’s obsession with Belinda’s locks in “Rape of the Lock.”
Tag Archives: Football
Sports Autographs & Locks of Hair
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Peyton Manning as Poe’s Dupin
Peyton Manning is like Edgar Allan Poe’s detective Dupin, who uses his keen mind to triumph over devious opponents.
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Tom Brady Channels Medea’s Fury
Lack of respect can lead to fury and destruction. As it was with Medea, so it was last week with Tom Brady.
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Longing for Grace in the Face of Chaos
Howard Nemerov’s 1975 ambivalence about televised football anticipates our own mixed feelings today.
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Can Raillery Defuse NFL Anger?
Aphra Behn wrestles with novel ways to deal with potential abuse in her play “The Rover.”
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The Seahawks: Prepared to Swoop & Kill
The Seattle Seahawks look prepared, once again, to unleash havoc on the other teams in the NFL–like the hawk in a Robert Cording poem.
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Austen, Moral Equivocation, and the NFL
My love of the NFL runs me up against some real moral quandaries. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte would understand.
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The Skater below the Ice
This wonderful Dacey poem about skating captures the other self we feel is just beyond the horizon–or beneath the ice.
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