Has anybody read the poem "to an athlete dying young"?

Question:

Has anybody read the poem "to an athlete dying young"?

in my english class we are reading this poem and "do not go gentle into that good night" so here's my Q? how do you define 'rout' in stanza 5 by it's context? and how can you paraphrase stanza 5? what is the meaning of this stanza?

The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.

To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.

Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay,
And early though the laurel grows
It withers quicker than the rose.

Eyes the shady night has shut
Cannot see the record cut,
And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears:

Now you will not swell the rout
Of lads that wore their honors out,
Runners whom reknown outran
And the name died before the man.

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3 months ago
So set, before the echoes fade,
The fleet foot on the sill of shade,
And hold to the low lintel up
The still-defended challenge-cup.

And round that early-laurelled head
Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,
And find unwithered on its curls
The garland briefer than a girl's.

help!!! :|

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

Rout- to retreat or withdrawal

This is what I interpret this stanza to mean...
You will not see the most renown runners quit even when they are beat and their name is forgotten as being the best. Their name may die- their name may not be chanted as number one but their life still goes on.

I hope this helps...