Spain suffocated first the French and then the Argentinian team, bring to mind the suffocating bell jar in the Sylvia Plath novel and the crushing rocks in The Crucible.
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Tag Archives: World Cup
Argentina: Trapped in a Bell Jar against Spain
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Was Oedipus Deserving of a Red Card?
The World Cup is leading to some great literary tweets from my English professor son.
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U.S. Soccer and the Ancient Mariner’s Curse
After Trump intervened with FIFA to overturn a red card, the USMT still lost. It was as though the Greek goddess Nemesis had intervened.
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Beowulf and “the Viking Row”
The “Viking Row” buoyed the Norwegian soccer team, bringing to mind a literary seafaring Scandinavian (i.e., Beowulf).
Soccer Ecstasy
A Diane Ackerman poem from the 1970s celebrating the beautiful game.
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French Team Resembles a Skunk Cabbage
How is the French soccer team like a skunk cabbage? I show how using a Mary Oliver poem.
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France and England’s Titanic Match
To capture France-England’s titanic World Cup struggle, I turn to Ralph Ellison and Christina Rossetti.
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A Poem To Console the Losers
As if losing to France weren’t bad enough, Croatia had to receive its second-place medals in the rain, bringing to mind Laforgue’s poem “Sad, Sad.”
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