Comparing Porphyria's Lover And I Could Not Stop For Me

Deadly Essay Death is a difficult concept to understand so many poets describe their experience and in order to share their views using their art. In “Porphyria's Lover” Robert Browning expressed his view of death a way of control and possible experience of a twisted love. Emily Dickinson however has a different view of death as a gentleman caller as shown in “I Could Not Stop For Death So Death Stopped For Me” as well as expressing a belief of accepting when death comes. Dylan Thomas disagrees with both Dickinson and Browning's views of death for in “Do Not Go Gently Into The Night” he expresses that death should be fought and that death is a monster or vortex that exists to ruin all. There are many literary devices used in their poetry, the most common is imagery and diction, but there were other devices used to fully express themselves. Robert …show more content…
The next line completes the metaphor that means it has been a long time since she first died. The next line shows that she went with death willingly. The last line shows that she saw the path that she will be going in her afterlife but it is said in a peaceful or like a fairy tale ending way. Dylan Thomas wrote “Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night” in order to show that death is a terrible monstrous being, which shows that he has a different view of death than both Emily Dickinson and Robert Browning. Dylan Thomas does not like death unlike Emily Dickinson, who thinks death is a friend and suitor. Unlike Browning, Thomas does not believe that death can not cause love, but only pain and sorrow. Dylan Thomas wrote: “Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” (3rd