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    The poem describes a deceased man asking questions from beyond the grave about what has changed since his death. In each stanza, he asks if a part of his former life - his farm team, football games, girlfriend - still continues as it did when he was alive. After each question, the response is that his old life moves on without him, as the horses still plough, the boys still play football, and his girlfriend has found comfort. In the final stanza, he asks if his friend fares well, and the response is that his friend now rests easy and comforts the dead man's sweetheart, without lingering on who he was.

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    The poem describes a deceased man asking questions from beyond the grave about what has changed since his death. In each stanza, he asks if a part of his former life - his farm team, football games, girlfriend - still continues as it did when he was alive. After each question, the response is that his old life moves on without him, as the horses still plough, the boys still play football, and his girlfriend has found comfort. In the final stanza, he asks if his friend fares well, and the response is that his friend now rests easy and comforts the dead man's sweetheart, without lingering on who he was.

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    A.E. Housman: 'Is My Team Ploughing

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    Mehmet Serdal
    The poem describes a deceased man asking questions from beyond the grave about what has changed since his death. In each stanza, he asks if a part of his former life - his farm team, football games, girlfriend - still continues as it did when he was alive. After each question, the response is that his old life moves on without him, as the horses still plough, the boys still play football, and his girlfriend has found comfort. In the final stanza, he asks if his friend fares well, and the response is that his friend now rests easy and comforts the dead man's sweetheart, without lingering on who he was.

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    'Is my team ploughing

    by A.E. Housman

    Is my team ploughing,
    That I was used to drive
    And hear the harness jingle
    When I was man alive?
    Ay, the horses trample,
    The harness jingles now;
    No change though you lie under
    The land you used to plough.
    Is football playing
    Along the river shore,
    With lads to chase the leather,
    Now I stand up no more?
    Ay, the ball is flying,
    The lads play heart and soul;
    The goal stands up, the keeper
    Stands up to keep the goal.
    Is my girl happy,
    That I thought hard to leave,
    And has she tired of weeping
    As she lies down at eve?
    Ay, she lies down lightly,
    She lies not down to weep:
    Your girl is well contented.

    Be still, my lad, and sleep.


    Is my friend hearty,
    Now I am thin and pine,
    And has he found to sleep in
    A better bed than mine?
    Yes, lad, I lie easy,
    I lie as lads would choose;
    I cheer a dead mans sweetheart,
    Never ask me whose.

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