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Everyone dies, and in sweet death, there are two opposing forces, grief and celebration, both aspects in which the living participate in death to recover from their loss. In To an Athlete Dying Young, A.E. Houseman uses a mix of iambic and non-iambic elements to tell the rhythm of death from the viewpoint of those left behind. His constant mixture of rhythm deals with the internal turbulence death causes and provides a lasting eulogy to poetic form and athlete. Bibliography lists 1 source. jvAthDyi.rtf
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recover from their loss. In To an Athlete Dying Young, A.E. Houseman uses a mix of iambic and non-iambic elements to tell the rhythm of death from the viewpoint of
those left behind. His constant mixture of rhythm deals with the internal turbulence death causes and provides a lasting eulogy to poetic form and athlete.
The student may want to note that Iambic sound is the natural rhythm of the English-speaking voice, and for this reason, Houseman begins with it to articulate a
sense of "oral tale" in the first two lines. Iambic sound is the metric rhythm that is a set of at least two feet (a short, followed by a long
sound, with emphasis on the second beat, or stated more specifically, a metrically unaccented syllable followed by a metrically accented one). Houseman
begins in iambic tetrameter (four double beats, as if it were a heart beating), as follows: x /
x / x / x / The time you
won your town the race x / x /
x / x / We chaired you through the market-place;
These two lines, as the words state, are an announcement of the plot, or story, of the poem. The use of "chaired" provides visual meaning to
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