Dying as a recognized youngster, or living too long as an idle elderly

The poem Athlete Dying Young by A.E. Houseman juxtaposes the poem Ulysses (Odysseus) by Lord Alfred Tennyson not only in the general contextual ideal, but also in a more specific and confined analytical analysis.  In Houseman's poem, the story of a boy who does not live long enough to see the glory of his own success juxtaposes to Tennyson's Odyssues through the story of an elderly king who has just "become a name" (Tennyson 11).  The poems not only differ in terms of literary structure such as imagery, syntax, and paragraph structure, but also through general contextual confinements such as theme, sound, meaning, and speaker.  Despite the fact that both poems are similar in the larger sense because of their correlation with life, A.E. Houseman's Athlete Dying Young greatly differs from Lord Alfred Tennyson's Ulysses through literary structure and general contextual confinements.