Peyton Manning is like Edgar Allan Poe’s detective Dupin, who uses his keen mind to triumph over devious opponents.
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Peyton Manning as Poe’s Dupin
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KC Royals Storm into World Series
The way the Kansas City Royals upended conventional wisdom in making it to the World Series is not unlike the chaos caused by Ariel in “The Tempest” to restore another royal to power.
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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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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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Wonder in an Old Leather Mitt
Emilio DeGrazia’s poems about an old leather mitt is a wonderful meditation on aging.
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