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To an Athlete Dying Young
This poem is basically an address to a young athlete who once received the praise and glory of his town because of his victory. However, now he is being remembered in a different way, because he is...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
Housman's poem offers only the slightest description of the setting, which has the effect of universalizing it: the action takes place in a small town, but it could be almost any town at anytime....
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To an Athlete Dying Young
Although A.E. Housman's famous poem reflects some of the preoccupations of the Victorian Age, it was written a century later and thus belongs under the category of Modern Poetry.The Victorian Age...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
The simple rhymed couplets chosen as a rhyme pattern give the poem a child-like, simplistic tone, almost like a nursery song (“itsy bitsy spider,” etc.) that renders the naivete, the innocence that...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
The poem is intentionally simple, to sound almost like regular conversation. There are times when it deviates from conventional conversation-like syntax though. Syntax is how the words are...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
The entire poem does not refer to a specific athlete or a particular sports event but to a universal condition. The condition of the athlete becomes, therefore, metaphoric of the entire human...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
Let us remind ourselves that alliteration can be defined as the repetition of initial consonant sounds in a series of words that may or may not be close together. It is one way that poets create...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
What a great idea to compare these two poems! I hadn't thought of that before! Of course, one poem supports the central idea of the other completely, as the fate of the athlete in "Ex-Basketball...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
One of the tragic fates in life is the death of young person in the prime of his life. Most people want to live a long life and would not wish a premature death on anyone. Yet, this is the...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
The basic idea of this famous poem is that it is better to die young, in your full strength and with all your abilities, rather than to grow old and gradually fade away before dying. The poem is...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
"To an Athlete Dying Young" by A. E. Housman approaches the topic of death in an unusual way. The point of view is third person with the narrator speaking as though he is one of the friends of the...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
A. E. Housman takes an alternative look at dying in "To an Athlete Dying Young." Speaking directly to the young man who has died, the narrator tries to help not only himself but the other people...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
"To an Athlete Dying Young" by A.E. Housman is an elegy. that is, a funeral song (poem). The form, then, is a reflection or extension of the meaning, for this poem is a tribute in praise of a...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
The speaker of "To an Athlete Dying Young" by A.E. Housman talks directly to a young athlete, offering advice and reflections on living, dying, and fame. In the first stanza, the speaker recalls...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
The Modernism that is evident in the poem can be found in the idea of contingency that underscores so much of what Housman is saying. The fleeting glory of the athlete represents the passing of...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
The closest to personification that first jumps out to me in A.E. Houseman’s poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” is in the fourth stanza: Eyes the shady night has shut Cannot see the record cut,...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
The attitude to death that is expressed in this poem is that it is better to bow out of life when you have reached the pinnacle of your achievement as a human in your chosen field. Living beyond...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
Although I generally do not like sad poems, this has always been one of my favorites. I don't know exactly what you mean by "features" but here are some literary elements in the poem. In the first...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
Robert Frost's poem "Out, Out—," and A.E. Housman's poem, "To an Athlete Dying Young" are similar in that they deal with two men dying young, but the tone is very different for each poem. There is...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
The speaker in the poem offers the idea that there is benefit in dying in one's prime as an athlete. In the lines "And early though the laurel grows / It withers quicker than the rose," the speaker...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
I generally always analyze a poem along two main pathways. You can take them in either order too. One way to analyze a poem is to analyze the plot, meanings, and themes. The second way to analyze...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
The second stanza is full of clues that point towards the death of the athlete, even if we did not have the title to point it out to us. Note what the speaker says to the athlete who has died in...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
This is a tough one, I think, and I really only have one loosely connected work to give you. The theme of Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" is that it's better to die young, when the early...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
The controlling metaphor of A. E. Housman’s poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” compares the running of a race to the living of a human life. Some people succeed in their races; others fail. Some...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
Since enotes only allows one question at a time, yours was edited. A. E. Housman was a poet who felt keenly the disappointments of life. Reflecting his sense of the contradictions of life, his...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
In my opinion, there is no way to know who the speaker is in any specific way. The only thing that we really can say about the speakers is that he (or she -- no way to know) is someone from the...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
A. E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young" is written in a detached tone that pointedly underscores the irony of athletic glory. For, as the speaker notes, it is better to die young at the height...
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To an Athlete Dying Young
Houseman's poem features a great deal of figurative language in its description of an athlete's accomplishments and the inevitable failure that awaits. The second stanza is a wonderful use of...