The coach has recently been diagnosed with cancer and really doesn’t have a specific “play” that he can call or fundamental he can rely on to upstage this condition as he has become accustomed to during a typical football game. The control factor is taken out of his situation which is not something that he is typically lacking at any given time. A typical high school football coach is noticed as a leader of men in most cases and most of the time is in the “lime light” of a community. The narrator paints a picture of what it is like when a coach who is admired and respected begins to have that “human factor”. He begins to deteriorate right before everyone’s eyes. This goes to show that even the larger than life character cannot escape certain cruelties on this earth. As effortlessly as it might seem to defeat a football team, cancer can take over someone’s body just as naturally. Certain traits of a high school football coach are explained through the eyes of a former player in the poem “Execution,” by Edward Hirsch. Tone, structure, and symbolic meaning of the poem paint a clear picture of a coach who is no longer competing in football, but trying to conquer father time. As much planning and such that goes into football, nothing can prepare the coach with what he is going to have to deal with in the coming
The coach has recently been diagnosed with cancer and really doesn’t have a specific “play” that he can call or fundamental he can rely on to upstage this condition as he has become accustomed to during a typical football game. The control factor is taken out of his situation which is not something that he is typically lacking at any given time. A typical high school football coach is noticed as a leader of men in most cases and most of the time is in the “lime light” of a community. The narrator paints a picture of what it is like when a coach who is admired and respected begins to have that “human factor”. He begins to deteriorate right before everyone’s eyes. This goes to show that even the larger than life character cannot escape certain cruelties on this earth. As effortlessly as it might seem to defeat a football team, cancer can take over someone’s body just as naturally. Certain traits of a high school football coach are explained through the eyes of a former player in the poem “Execution,” by Edward Hirsch. Tone, structure, and symbolic meaning of the poem paint a clear picture of a coach who is no longer competing in football, but trying to conquer father time. As much planning and such that goes into football, nothing can prepare the coach with what he is going to have to deal with in the coming