Good Night Figurative Language

Everyone knows the fact that death is inevitable, but different people deal with death in different ways. Some people grieve for the deaths of their loved ones and some people welcome death when the time comes. In A. E. Housman’s dramatic poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” (1896) and Dylan Thomas’ villanelle, “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” (1951), the poets describe the deaths of people of different ages, by using figurative language and other literary devices. Housman and Thomas describe characters who are dealing with death in different manners and how the characters deal with it.
The imagery of the poems details the characters death and the event before and after the deaths. In the second stanza of “To an Athlete Dying Young”,