Sporty People Poem by Wendy Cope
Sporty People
I took her for my kind of person
And it was something of a shock
When my new friend revealed
That, once upon a time,
She was a Junior County Tennis Champion.
How could that happen?
How could I accidentally
Make friends with a tennis champion?
How could a tennis champion
Make friends with me?
She wasn't stupid. She read books.
She had never been mean to me
For being bad at games.
I decided to forgive
Her unfortunate past.
Sporty people can be OK -
Of course they can.
Later on, I met poets
Who played football. It's still hard
To get my head round that.
The poet believes that sporty people shouldn't be studios and she stereotypes them to be mean and blame her for their losses. But when she gets to know that her friend was a tennis champion and meets some footballers who are poets, she changes her opinion on sporty people and starts to respect them.
People have different traits and unpredictable qualities about them. They can be
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The poem is witty and reveals that never judge a book by its cover. Never to be judgemental.
The poet was amused when she learnt that her new friend was a tennis champion who was equally good at studies.The poet wonders that how can a sports person be so serious about reading books. Later on she also met a poet who played football. This changed the poets opinion about a person that a person can excel both in academics and other activities at the same time.
So, the poet thinks and assumes that the people who play sports cannot be good at studies which is a form of stereotyping and it is not good to judge people according to the past or background.She has a friend but she doesn't know that she is a champion in tennis.She thinks that her friend is exactly like her but when she gets to know that she plays a sport and she is very good at it, she starts to judge her which is not good at all.So shortly we get to know that the poet is a nerd.
Well, the poet believes that people who r good at sports can’t be a nerd or a studios but in reality there are people like that too, in fact I have friend who is good at both.
The poet believes that sporty people cannot be good at studies while they can be good at it she gets to know this with an example that is her own friend. She realizes that she was wrong to judge people like that
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12/1/2024 11:13:33 PM # 1.0.0
Ha! Im taken Mrs Cope is writing in jest, not all athletes are prigs, not all poets are sweet. Would have loved to see what she thought of golfing, aka the most boring game invented by man