'Death and Athlete Essay\r'

' ennoble: The title buttocks suggest two different things because â€Å" death young” can be interpret differently figuratively and literally. Literally, it would mean that the athletic supporter was expiry. Figuratively, it would mean that the suspensor’s vocation was coming to an end earlier than anticipate perhaps because he was sick or injured. Paraphrase: The verbalizer is specifically addressing the â€Å" jockstrap expiry young” but is addressing everyone in general. When you won the town race, everyone congratulated and cheered for you. However, today we earn you space after you finished your presbyopic race. You’re smart for leaving the arena before resplendency left you.\r\nthough victory and subsequent glory comes advance(prenominal), it shrink forward faster than a rose. today since you are dead, you cannot see or collect anything. At least your fame and glory sash with you as you bombd. Many people’s glory and fa me left them before they left. So leave the world before fame’s echo fades. Then your fame leave alone go forever and you will be wholesome known for your achievement. Connotation: Form †This metrical composition is kind of akin an eulogy because it praises the supporter who died/is dying young.\r\nIn stanza 3, the speaker depends to be praising the athlete by stating, â€Å" expert lad, to slip be measures away From field where glory does not stay. He’s basically saying, â€Å"Yay. Good job on dying young. ” Diction †The diction is relatively easy to read and seems very conventional. This makes it seem as if the meter was not specifically for the athlete or athletes but for everyone. imagery †The imagery makes the verse form seem more than elegiac. Stanza 3: â€Å"And first though the medal grows It withers quicker than the rose. ” Stanza 7: â€Å" allow for flock to gaze the strengthless dead” principal of View †The POV seems to be that of a baby buster resident of the town the â€Å"athlete dying young” resided in. â€Å"We chaired you through… we bring you home” Details †There are a lot of details on disembodied spirit history/death and glory/fame.\r\nAllusions †There is an allusion to the time of the Greeks. It was customary in ancient Greece to waft champion athletes with wreaths with leaves from laurel trees. Stanza 3: And early though the laurel grows. Stanza 7: â€Å"And finish out that early-laurelled head” Symbolism †In stanza 2, the â€Å" highway all runners come” symbolizes life and how it finally leads to death. In stanza 3. the laurel symbolizes glory and fame term the rose symbolizes how beauty/victory/life is ephemeral. Figurative Language †In stanza 2, in that respect is a metaphor dealing with the â€Å"stiller town. ” Basically, there is a comparison of a graveyard/graveyard to a town.\r\nAlso, in sta nza 4, the â€Å" funny dark” is a comparison of night to death. Attitude: Well, at first, I opinion the tone was depressing because it was mournful of an athlete who died young. However, the speaker’s tone seems to be more reverential than mournful because the praises the speaker gives to the athlete makes it seem as if dying young is better. The speaker states that since he died young, his fame/glory is fresh and everlasting and that this is better than â€Å"runners whom renown outran [them]. ” Shifts: There is shift from the first stanza to the blurb stanza and then from the plump for to the third.\r\nFrom then on the stanzas are mostly positive. The first stanza is instead celebratory. Everyone is celebrating the athlete who won the race. Then in the second stanza, the mood shifts from cheerful to mournful because the athlete now died. After the second stanzas, all the stanzas are more optimistic. It makes early death seems better than long life. Title : My original opinions of the title are preferably similar to my current ones. Basically the poem is about a champion athlete who died early. Due to his early death, his fame lingers on because his accomplishments in life will still be remembered.\r\nThe athlete in the poem literally dies but so does his career as well. However, one thing that doesn’t die or decay is the athlete’s accomplishments. Theme(s): The main theme in this poem is between life/death and glory. liveness doesn’t last forever and incomplete does youth nor fame. Since fame/glory is ephemeral like beauty, if you live for too long after your accomplishments, your fame/glory is bound to wither away before you do. However, if you die with achievements, your renown will be fresh and remembered. Yet the importation to this is that you have to face bitter death.\r\n'