Aging is inevitable. It is so important because, associated with aging is death.
The death it is associated with however is a bodily death. In my opinion, there are many
types of demise one has to deal with before they are actually dead. There is the death of
whatever it is you do best, there is a death of spirit, there is a death of the mind and then
there is dying physically. The death of whatever you do best comes when someone better
comes around and you are now in the shadows. The death of spirit usually comes when
all the things you lived for and did well have ended, and you feel there is nothing more to
life. The death of the mind usually comes with age and you basically become mad.
Physical death is the passing away of you as a person and there is no life after that. This
is typically brought with aging because the older you get, the closer you get to dying. In
Housman's poem "To an Athlete Dying Young" they speak of death however, it is not
the death of a person rather the death of their glare of publicity. Eliot's poem "The Love
Song of Alfred j. prufrock" they speak of death being the physical dying. The difference
between the two poems is the death Housman speaks about is the death of a name. The
death Eliot speaks about is the death of a person. Some people consider death when you
are buried and some people consider death when you are no longer known for what you
In the poem "To an Athlete Dying Young" they portray your death as when what
you are known for is no longer what you do good. The whole poem has a depressing
tone as if you would not see the person anymore. The author makes it seem like after
your limelight is gone there is nothing more to live for. It also states "and the name died
before the man" (Housman1165 Bedfor
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