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Sports will always bring out the best in an individual. One's competitive nature only shows how much love one has for the game (whatever game that might be). In Arnold Adoff's "My knee is Only Sprained" and James Whitehead's "Good Linemen Live in a Closed World" express just how much love one has for the game, even though the poems are about two different sports. "My Knee is Only Sprained" doesn't talk about a specific sport, but with a little analyzing, one can conclude that the sport played by the injured athlete is basketball. "Good Linemen Live in a Closed World" is clearly a poem of offensive linemen on a football team. The player depicted in Arnold Adoff's poem truly loves the game. Adoff's use of words gives clear indication of that. The
His love for the game is so strong that he only sees it as "only" a sprain, something insignificant that will never hamper him again. You have to really love the game to be a linemen because you can't be doing in for the fame, because there is none! As lineman we "maintain. I can vouch due to the fact that I am a lineman. suffer repetition for years and years. You can't truly grasp the full concept of the poem if you are on the outside looking in. I know I endure all of that pain for the camaraderie and the love of "the game". The two poems both indeed manifest the author's obvious love for "the game". That position is more than meets the eye. Linemen receive no glory at the end of the game when they are the most important component of the success of the team. The author himself is or was obviously a lineman. Adoff is talking from a first-person point of view and Whitehead could possibly be talking from a third-person point of view, but they both are clearly conveying the same message of that they have tremendous love for their respective games.
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