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Essay on To An Athlete Dying Young by A. E. Houseman
"To An Athlete Dying Young" by A. E. Houseman
"To An Athlete Dying Young" by A. E. Houseman is heavy with the irony of paradox. It is by the English poet A. E. Housman (1859-1936). About youth and death, it is a lyric in form, with all the neatness and precision of that poetic style at its best.
To an Athlete Dying Young
The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.
Today, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.
Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.................
