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”.
Housman uses imagery like this because it contributes to the mood, making the poem seem happy and upbeat. Imagery is needed because without it the story would be a lot worse. One example of diction is “So set, before its echoes fade…......the still-defended challenge-cup”. Housman used this element of language and literature because everyone has one. Every author uses diction but it’s like a fingerprint because everyone has a different one. I choose this example of diction from this text because these lines of this poem means that even though everyone forgot him, he is still the winner of the challenge cup. Housman uses rhymes, which are common in poems. Housman also uses imagery to shape the setting. Housman uses many elements of literature and language to make this poem a good one.