Virginia Woolf's To An Athlete Dying Young

In this poem To an Athlete Dying Young, there many different tones, exciting, hopeful, valued, confused, puzzled, mournful, sorrowful, hurt,upset, remorseful, sorry, and tone shifts. No matter how sorrowful or depressing the author went he always kept a sort of positivity in his poem. The author keeps a positive sense of writing constantly because he is a positive writer and is trying to show how it was not this horrible death, this young athlete died a praised and honored as an awesome athlete. The rhyme scheme of this poem is (AABB.) The poem starts out in a flash back to the past of the young athlete, very exciting tone, a positive atmosphere, the athlete had just won the town race, ‘man and boy stood cheering by, and home we brought you