To an Athlete Dying Young (Poem)
What is the narrator point of view in the poem, To an Athlete Dying Young?
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To an Athlete Dying Young opens in a first-person plural perspective, which is most consistently maintained throughout the first two stanzas with the self-referential pronoun “we” in lines 2, 4 ,and 6. By implying multiple first-person speakers talking together, Housman emphasizes, early on, his poem's interest in the shared, subjective feelings of a community as they undergo the same tragic experience together
To an Athlete Dying Young