Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Analysis Essay

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These two poems themes are familiar, because they both explain the advantages of life. In “A Time For Everything” it explains the things that you can do in life, and the time to do them, but in “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” it explains how their life was wasted, and they were running out of time to make life worthwhile.
The men in “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” were wise, good, wild, and grave, but none of them lived in the present. They all lived in their past wasting their lives away. So essentially, they were “fighting death”, they finally figured out that life is more than just partying and living in the past, but it was too late, because death was coming, and it was coming quick; eventually, he begged his

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