To An Athlete Dying Young Summary
The poem that I analyzed is called “To An Athlete Dying Young”. The author of this poem is A.E. Housman. This poem is Non-Fiction. The purpose of this poem is to inform. The audience of this text is students (young adults). This poem is written in second person. The main idea of this poem is that your family will always support you. In this poem one of the metaphors is “And the name died before the man”. This metaphor means that he was once well known, but now people have forgotten who he is. This metaphor is important because it tells the reader important information. One example of imagery in this poem is in stanza one, “We chaired you through the market-place; man and boy stood cheering by and home we brought you shoulder high”.