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aCTIvITy 3.13
continued
Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honours out, Runners whom renown outran
20 And the name died before the man.
So set, before its echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade, And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.
25 And round that early-laurelled head Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead, And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl’s.
Second read
• Reread the poem to answer these text-dependent questions.
• Write any additional questions you have about the text in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
1. Key Ideas and Details: What image is created by using the word “chaired” in line 2? How does this image change in the second stanza?
2. Key Ideas and Details: Which words or lines from the poem suggest that there is an advantage to dying young?
3. Key Ideas and Details: In the last two stanzas, what is the poem’s speaker telling the athlete to do? Use quotations from the poem to support your ideas.
my Notes
Unit 3 • Choices and Consequences 201
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