Dylan Thomas and Alfred Lord Tennyson use figurative language to describe death differently. Thomas’s poem “ Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” uses words like “good night,” “close of day,” and “dying of the light” to describe death as a person is dying and leaving the world. In contrast, Lord Tennyson’s “The Charge Of The Light Brigade,” uses visual words to describe the solders fate with “jaws of Death,” and “mouth of hell” since the soldiers are running toward their fate in battle. Both describe death in the poems under different circumstances; one is dying and the poet’s message is to live a full life until death, and the other describes the inevitable death that occurs during a
