An athlete's goal is to either to maintain their physical fitness, that they have earned through various exercises, or they hope that their name is remembered. However, in some cases skill hardly matters to be remembered as an athlete. Rather, the death of a youthful athlete has a more memorable plaque on their tombstone than an older athlete’s. In A. E. Housman’s poem To an Athlete Dying Young, Housman explores this idea of how the death of a young athlete makes them more memorable than dying of natural causes or at a later age. With the use of imagery, tone, and syntax Housman is successfully able to illustrate the aftermath of a young athlete’s demise.…