Introduction
The presence of death in human life concern all the nations and all the countries of the world. The existence of rituals, customs, beliefs, and ceremonies of death proves global fear and respect to the death act. The majority of poets fail to perceive death as a regular event that would inevitably come to the life of every individual. Poems accordingly conveyed the necessity of either fighting back or the necessity of death’s acceptance. The observed four poems: “One Art,” “Kaleidoscope,” “Do not Go Gently into That Good Night,” and “A Day On” represent both corresponding and contrasting depictions of death. The content of the poems proves the difference of death perception deriving from the culture, individual features of the …show more content…
“Do not Go Gently…”), etc. The selected criteria would be observed through the poems’ full analysis including death representation and attitude to it.
Poems’ Analysis
“One Art” (1975) is one of the best poems by Elizabeth Bishop. The general message of the poem is that a human being tends to lose things in his/her life. However, he/she frequently fails to be “ready” for the loss of the loved one.
The tone of the poem is pedantic, aiming at controlling strong emotions and the teacher-like narrative on the loss probability. The rhyming is traced through circularity and refrains. The rhyme scheme is ABA, except for the last line that creates an impression of conclusion. The poem is divided into six stanzas that reveal similar rhyming of the symbolic words “isn’t hard to master” – “a disaster” .The word choice is intentionally reserved when the lexicon can be observed from neutral to emotional when the neutral line ends with emphatic “disaster.” The author appeals to her personal experience for credibility (ethos) and uses the examples of the term “losing” to convey its regularity …show more content…
The author observes his life as an extension of “kaleidoscopic” daily actions to ease the life of his wife and make her feel better. However, he loses her and cannot find peace with himself.
“Do not Go Gently into That Good Night” (1945) by Dylan Thomas has recently gained mainstream popularity with the Nolan’s masterpiece Interstellar. It is devoted to the author’s father and written in the year of his death – 1945. The poem invokes not to give up the fight and “rage” against the death approaching. The poem is the most rebellious of all four and provides one of the strongest motivational moods in poetry.
The tone of the poem is elevated and metaphoric. Its music texture is interrelated with its form called “villanelle.” The rhyming is circular that creates an expression of dancing. It contains five tercets ABA and the last quatrain rhyming ABAA. The lines of the first tercet are recurring to emphasize the emotional impact. In the first tercet, the first line repeats itself in the second and the fourth one while the third line is repeated at the last line of the third and the fifth one. The word choice reminds of the ode and shows highly symbolic and metaphoric
The presence of death in human life concern all the nations and all the countries of the world. The existence of rituals, customs, beliefs, and ceremonies of death proves global fear and respect to the death act. The majority of poets fail to perceive death as a regular event that would inevitably come to the life of every individual. Poems accordingly conveyed the necessity of either fighting back or the necessity of death’s acceptance. The observed four poems: “One Art,” “Kaleidoscope,” “Do not Go Gently into That Good Night,” and “A Day On” represent both corresponding and contrasting depictions of death. The content of the poems proves the difference of death perception deriving from the culture, individual features of the …show more content…
“Do not Go Gently…”), etc. The selected criteria would be observed through the poems’ full analysis including death representation and attitude to it.
Poems’ Analysis
“One Art” (1975) is one of the best poems by Elizabeth Bishop. The general message of the poem is that a human being tends to lose things in his/her life. However, he/she frequently fails to be “ready” for the loss of the loved one.
The tone of the poem is pedantic, aiming at controlling strong emotions and the teacher-like narrative on the loss probability. The rhyming is traced through circularity and refrains. The rhyme scheme is ABA, except for the last line that creates an impression of conclusion. The poem is divided into six stanzas that reveal similar rhyming of the symbolic words “isn’t hard to master” – “a disaster” .The word choice is intentionally reserved when the lexicon can be observed from neutral to emotional when the neutral line ends with emphatic “disaster.” The author appeals to her personal experience for credibility (ethos) and uses the examples of the term “losing” to convey its regularity …show more content…
The author observes his life as an extension of “kaleidoscopic” daily actions to ease the life of his wife and make her feel better. However, he loses her and cannot find peace with himself.
“Do not Go Gently into That Good Night” (1945) by Dylan Thomas has recently gained mainstream popularity with the Nolan’s masterpiece Interstellar. It is devoted to the author’s father and written in the year of his death – 1945. The poem invokes not to give up the fight and “rage” against the death approaching. The poem is the most rebellious of all four and provides one of the strongest motivational moods in poetry.
The tone of the poem is elevated and metaphoric. Its music texture is interrelated with its form called “villanelle.” The rhyming is circular that creates an expression of dancing. It contains five tercets ABA and the last quatrain rhyming ABAA. The lines of the first tercet are recurring to emphasize the emotional impact. In the first tercet, the first line repeats itself in the second and the fourth one while the third line is repeated at the last line of the third and the fifth one. The word choice reminds of the ode and shows highly symbolic and metaphoric