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Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young"
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A. E. Housman's "To an Athlete Dying Young," also known as Lyric XIX
in A Shropshire Lad, holds as its main theme the premature death of a young
athlete as told from the point of view of a friend serving as pall bearer.
The poem reveals the concept that those dying at the peak of their glory or
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....an describes the laurel growing "early" yet dying
"quicker than a rose." (967) This parallels "the 'smart lad' who chose to
'slip betimes away' at the height of his fame" (Explicator 188). Leggett's
implication of this parallel is "that death, too is a victory" (54). He
should consider himself lucky that he died in his prime and will not out
live his fame. Housman says:
Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than ch.... |
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