EL 472 - Language Appreciatio

by Azira Marini Ab Rahim

how did you

die?
by Edmund Vance Cooke
(1886 - 1932)

about him

rn on June 5, 1866 in Port Denver,

tario, Canada.

st job after leaving school was in a

wing Machine Factory.

1893, left job to earn a living as a

et, writer, and public speaker.

blished first book of poems; A

tch of Pansies in 1894

blished further 15 books of poetry

d several books for children

ed in Cleveland, Ohio on December

h 1932.

about the poem

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theme

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message

meaning of phrases

1st stanza
tackle that trouble that came your

esolute heart and cheerful?

your face from the light of day

craven soul and fearful?

trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an

uble is what you make it,

isn't the fact that you're hurt that

y how did you take it?

2nd stanza
beaten to earth?

ell, what's that?

p with a smiling face.

ng against you to fall down flat,

e there -- that's disgrace.

der you're thrown, why the higher you

d of your blackened eye!

e fact that you're licked that counts,

did you fight -- and why?

final stanza

ugh you be done to the death, what

attled the best you could,

ayed your part in the world of men,

e Critic will call it good.

omes with a crawl, or comes with a

ether he's slow or spry,

e fact that you're dead that counts,

how did you die?