To An Athlete Dying Young Summary

You may have your heads up high for what you have accomplish, but it would soon wither into nothing but despair. In the poem "To an Athlete Dying Young" by A. E. Housemen, he uses diction, imagery, and allusion of a poem to identify the tone and theme of an athlete's life ending short. In the first stanza of the poem, the author gives an imagery of a town celebrating the victory of an athlete. However, the author surprises the reader the fact that the athlete is no longer sitting on the chair of victory, but instead in a coffin. The word "stiller" was used to express the tone of sorrow and the shock that the village felt. However the poem, explains how all of the runners of a race comes to an end, which is death. The third stanza, the author