For some people, death can be looked upon as a symbol of freedom from the trials and tribulations of earth, meanwhile it can also be looked at as an unfortunate event that has taken away someone too early. In Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”, she manages to highlight how death could be looked at with personification as well as how it possesses good-natured aspects. In this poem, Dickinson refers to death primarily as “he”, accentuating that death is a person. Death can be courteous when we think about it as a freeing trait. If someone were to see their last days as just letting go from long suffering due to an illness or if they are ready for it; then one could see how respectful death could really be. In Thomas’s "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night", human mortality is definitely not seen with a courteous attitude. Since the speaker is the son of a dying father, the reader can infer that the son is hurting and knows that death is taking away a loved one from him too
For some people, death can be looked upon as a symbol of freedom from the trials and tribulations of earth, meanwhile it can also be looked at as an unfortunate event that has taken away someone too early. In Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”, she manages to highlight how death could be looked at with personification as well as how it possesses good-natured aspects. In this poem, Dickinson refers to death primarily as “he”, accentuating that death is a person. Death can be courteous when we think about it as a freeing trait. If someone were to see their last days as just letting go from long suffering due to an illness or if they are ready for it; then one could see how respectful death could really be. In Thomas’s "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night", human mortality is definitely not seen with a courteous attitude. Since the speaker is the son of a dying father, the reader can infer that the son is hurting and knows that death is taking away a loved one from him too