Muhammad Ali passed away in 2016 at the age of 74. Sports Unlimited News. Float Like a Butterfly: The Pictorial Timeline of Muhammad Ali. Posted: November 20, 2024 | Last updated: March 1, 2025.

No one would ever mistake Muhammad Ali for a butterfly or a honeybee. And yet poetry uses metaphor to show us how they are connected and what they have in common. Try it yourself.