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Original poem reprinted online here: "Lesson in the Sunday Comics" by Jonathan Travelstead Originally read: May 14, 2013 More information about the Poet: Jonathan Travelstead Tercets until the end of the poem.  There seems to be three driving forces in this poem:  the representation of Calvin, the representation of Hobbes, and the speaker adding more of an narrator tone in the poem. First though, what really confused me was this in stanza four, "The friends, one named after a theologian, / the other a philosopher, hurtle pell-mell / down eight panels of hill,"  I searched for a while behind the meaning behind the allusion.  Yes, they do allude to John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes, and then I realized I was looking too deeply to the allusion and seeing how the philosophy mixed with and within Calvin and Hobbes, or rather what the theologian and the philosopher mean to the poem. But, ah, it is not the philosopher, but the philosophy that matters.  So on hone side ther...