To an Athlete Dying Young Many people die in their prime each year. No one deserves to die young, even if you are a famous athlete in your prime. When you die young, you are always remembered for what you accomplished in your life and when you live a long life people sometimes forget about you. A.E. Housman has used this message in To an Athlete Dying Young to create a profound poem that …showed first 75 words of 1332 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1332 total…prevailing time in his/her life and for that to be taken away was wrong. Good people don’t deserve to die young. Dying young might have advantages, but they do not come close to life. For this athlete, it was better for him/her to die young because he/she would be able to die with the illusion that he/she is the best and that no one can take that from him/her.