The narrator of this poem continually applauds the title figure for the title action, noting in the fifth stanza the amount of "lads who wore their honours out.
The narrator of this poem continually applauds the title figure for the title action, noting in the fifth stanza the amount of "lads who wore their honours out." In the first eight lines the narrator recounts two trips along the same road under considerably different moods, evidenced by the different wooden objects the title figure is carried in. Saying that "early though the laurel grows / It withers quicker than a rose," FTP identify this A. E. Housman poem that could have been addressed in modern times to Len Bias and Darryl Kile.
The narrator of this poem continually applauds the title figure for the title action, noting in the fifth stanza the amount of "lads who wore their honours out.
"{To an Athlete Dying Young}"