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- 1: Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young"
- Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young" Author: John S. Ward 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 ... dying at the peak of their glory or youth are really quite lucky. The first few readings of "To an Athlete Dying Young" provides the reader with an understanding of Housman's view of death. Additional readings reveal Housman's attempt to convey the classical idea that youth, beauty, and glory can be preserved only in death. A line-by- ...
- 2: Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young"
- Housman's "To An Athlete Dying Young" Author: John S. Ward 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 ... dying at the peak of their glory or youth are really quite lucky. The first few readings of "To an Athlete Dying Young" provides the reader with an understanding of Housman's view of death. Additional readings reveal Housman's attempt to convey the classical idea that youth, beauty, and glory can be preserved only in death. A line-by- ...
- 3: Shropshire
- Shropshire: A Place of Imagined Sexual Contentment Published in 1869, A.E. Housman s A Shropshire Lad stands as one of the most socially acclaimed collections of English poetry from the Victorian age. This period in British history, however, proves, by judiciary focus (the Criminal Law Amendment of 1885), to be conflictive with Housman s own internal conflicts concerning the homoerotic tendencies which he discovered in his admiration of fellow Oxford student Moses Jackson. Housman, much unlike other English literary figures such as Oscar Wilde and Thomas hardy, was not an artist who found it necessary to directly confront Britain with any political dissention ...
- 4: A Shropshire Lad
- Shropshire: A Place of Imagined Sexual Contentment Published in 1869, A.E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad stands as one of the most socially acclaimed collections of English poetry from the Victorian age. This period in British history, however, proves, by judiciary focus (the Criminal Law Amendment of 1885), to be conflictive with Housman’s own internal conflicts concerning the homoerotic tendencies which he discovered in his admiration of fellow Oxford student Moses Jackson. Housman, much unlike other English literary figures such as Oscar Wilde and Thomas hardy, was not an artist who found it necessary to directly confront Britain with any political dissention ...
- 5: To An Athlete Dying Young By A
- ... and would be aghast to have premature death be viewed in a positive light. Yet this thought is the driving force behind "To an Athlete Dying Young" by A.E. Housman. Housman, the speaker of the poem, implies in an ironic tone that it is better to die in one's prime, at the height of glory, as to not suffer from ... of seeing their accomplishments fade and become meaningless in the eyes of the masses. The setting of the poem is the funeral of a young champion runner. Rather than mourn, Housman reflects on how lucky the athlete was to have died in the height of glory. Housman recalls the time the athlete won a race, gaining him public appreciation, "Man ...
- 6: Analysis Of To An Athlete Dyin
- ... by most to be one of the most tragic of fates. The specter of deeds not accomplished and a life unlived haunts the funeral set you at your threshold down (Housman l. 7), and causes the grief to reach a higher level. Most people desire to live to a ripe old age and they would be aghast to have a premature death viewed through a positive light. Yet a positive funeral is exactly the driving force behind A.E. Housman s To an Athlete Dying Young. The poem states outright that it is better to die in the glory of youth than to rest too long on one s laurels ... 20). In all this process, the reader shifts pity from the dead to the living, mourning not what was never to arrive but what did arrive and was never received. Housman truly followed what he felt. Housman believed that poetry should have a physical effect on the reader, a sensation akin to love or fear. To an Athlete Dying Young ...
- 7: To An Athlete Dying Young
- Analysis of A. E. Housman s To an Athlete Dying Young Dying young is considered by most to be one of the most tragic of fates. The specter of things undone and a life unlived ... live to a ripe old age and would be shocked to have a premature death viewed in a positive light. Yet, this is exactly the driving force behind A. E. Housman s To an Athlete Dying Young. In the poem, dying young and at the height of your career is looked upon as fortunate. Living and watching your laurels wither away ... does. In all this process, the reader shifts pity from the dead to the living, mourning not what was never to arrive but what did arrive and was taken away. Housman's poem "To an Athlete Dying Young" suggests that life is short and glory is even shorter. A way out of this trap is to do a great deed ...
- 8: Respect and Responsibility
- ... were growing up. Respect in today's life is referred to having trust and faith in a person. Some people say respect is loving someone. Others honor people like athletes (Housman, 850). The way everyone should show respect is by being polite to everyone. Responsibility is telling someone that they can depend on you and following through with what you said ... by caring the athlete down the main street in there town. People loved the athlete so much they had to shut there eyes as he passed by before he died(Housman,850). The athlete never thought he was to good for the people of the town that is why they had so much respect for him. A article in Ebony Man ...
- 9: An Analysis of British Literature
- ... is the place heroes went after death. It is interesting how both encourage Carpe Diem, yet they have contrasting views of the afterlife. The Victorian age poetry of A.E. Housman, brought forth another idea about afterlife. In "To An Athlete Dying Young," the poet contradicted the idea in "Ozymandias" that having glory during life does not mean a person will ... the afterlife. Instead, he suggested a person is immortalized the way he is when he dies, and in the afterlife he has the honor and prestige he had during life. Housman told the athlete, "silence sounds no worse than cheers/ After earth has stopped the ears:/ Now you will not swell the rout/ Of lads that wore their honors out." The ...
- 10: An Analysis of British Literature
- ... is the place heroes went after death. It is interesting how both encourage Carpe Diem, yet they have contrasting views of the afterlife. The Victorian age poetry of A.E. Housman, brought forth another idea about afterlife. In "To An Athlete Dying Young," the poet contradicted the idea in "Ozymandias" that having glory during life does not mean a person will ... the afterlife. Instead, he suggested a person is immortalized the way he is when he dies, and in the afterlife he has the honor and prestige he had during life. Housman told the athlete, "silence sounds no worse than cheers/ After earth has stopped the ears:/ Now you will not swell the rout/ Of lads that wore their honors out." The ...
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