A Slacker Repents

OK, I know, it's been days. Today we worked on the poetry project and I assigned the poetry HW which you should do every night on the next day's poems.
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Poetry HW

1. Paraphrase the plot of this poem. Briefly, what is it about?
2. What is the overall tone of the poem?
3. Note a few literary techniques which stand out in this poem.

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Tonight's poems:

• "To an Athlete Dying Young" ~Housman
• "Leda and the Swan" ~Yeats