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In the Poem “Tears, Idle Tears” by Alfred Tennyson displays themes of hopelessness. In the very beginning he the poem says “ Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair” (Alfred Tennyson). With saying this it shows that the author is in some sort of pain but doesn’t exactly know what’s causing it. He follows that with “In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.” It shows he likes to remember on his happier days. When he says there are no more he lives on those days and it hurts more. This can be related to Boobie Miles in book, ‘Friday Night Lights’, where after his knee injury he losses his effectiveness on the field. After not being played Boobie quits the team.

“I quit, coach, they got a good season going” (Bissinger 17). Boobie Miles was going to quit because he messed up his knee in football. Boobie Miles was not feeling like doing nothing for his team cause his knee was hurt and having to sit on the sidelines and have to watch the sport that he loved to play. Boobie miles had only football and now that he hurt his knee he couldn’t do nothing but sit on the bleachers and watch his teammates play the game. He knew that they had a good season going and didn’t want to come back in a couple of weeks and mess up the streak that they were in. With Boobie Miles being out for a couple of weeks he might come back and could have forgot a couple of plays and lost a game because he hurt his ankle and missed practice for a couple weeks. Boobie did not want this to happen so he just quit because his team was on a good winning streak and did not want to hurt his team from going to state. All Boobie can do not is seat in the bleachers and cheer his team on.