The “afterlife”…a very curious subject that we as humans want to know about, we never want to experience it but we do. let's ask what that would look like. As an individual, I am fascinated by the infinite number of ways life could be after death, if there is even an afterlife. Maybe one day you'll have dark, desirable curiosity questions floating around in your head, like: "Do they miss me, or have they already moved on?" In “Is my Team Plowing,” by AE Housman, the emotional speaker discusses how life continues after death. The speaker, who is believed to be the friend of a dead man, is guilty of having moved on in life and having had relations with the wife of his deceased friend, so he has a moment of guilt in head or that's how I interpreted it. We will first begin with a brief history of the author. Alfred Edward Housman (AE Housman) was born on 26 March 1859 near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. At the age of twelve, Housman had lost his mother to cancer, which caused his father to become an alcoholic. When it seemed that Housman had nothing left to live for, he won a scholarship to St. John's College, Oxford, where he studied Latin and Greek. Housman was gay and fell in love with a student who also attended St. John's College, Moses Jackson. This individual seemed to have a major impact on his life, especially academically, given that he had failed all of his final exams. He published only two volumes of poetry; A Boy from Shropshire (1896) and Last Poems (1922). Housman had a wonderful life filled with many inspirational poetry films and lectures on poetry. He died on April 30, 1936. The summary of the poem is a conversation between a young man and his deceased friend. The dead man asks his friend a series of different questions...... middle of paper ......and the theme of life. It also displays examples of irony and imagery, but still manages to make the reader wonder what is really going on. Was the poem a description of the conversation between a deceased man and his still-living friend, or was it the guilty, conscious mind of the still-living friend? Works Cited Arp, Thomas R. and Greg Johnson. Perrine's literature: structure, sound and meaning. 10th edition. Boston: Wadsworth Publishing, 2012. Print. « AE Housman Papers | Special collections | Bryn Mawr College Library." AE Housman Papers | Special Collections | Bryn Mawr College Library. Np, and Web. April 12, 2014. "AE Housman: A Life in Brief." AE Housman: A Life in Brief. Np , and Web April 11.. 2014. .