For my essay I decided on ‘Prayer Before Birth’, ‘-If ‘ and ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’. This is because all three poems are linked in the means of showing different approaches to life and death. I consider life to day as death to night because like life, day brings about the new birth of a new day and death is like night as it is the end of a chapter. In these three poems they follow a set sequence with ‘Prayer before birth’ first as it is the first stage of life which is as a baby, then followed by ‘-If ‘ that shows the journey to adulthood and how your choices will create an impact on your future. Lastly, ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ that confirms the conclusion of the persons’ odyssey with how they have different
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In this poem, Louis expresses his worries for what the world’s tyranny could do to that of innocent children during the Second World War however he puts it through the perspective of an unborn child in its mother’s womb and it is ironic as babies are born with pure minds. The poem makes an intensive statement on the sordid state of the world and how living is a painful experience but being born is a terrifying one. The prenatal prayers of the unborn child are to protect it against the horrors of the contemporary world of …show more content…
They are fictional characters that are found in books or cartoons. In addition, this demonstrates the idea that these are the first stages of fear until when these fears transform into more realistic tragedies such as terrorist attacks, homicides and kidnapping. The child beseeches God to keep the evil creatures from him- ‘O hear me’- and it does this because it believes of it does not encounter these creatures then they will jot influence him in the actions that he takes and become evil.
As poem moves from stanza to stanza, the fears grow wider. In the second stanza, He explores more on what harm humans can do. During the war it was the age of concentration camps and this is a place where people are deliberately imprisoned to provide forced labour or to await mass execution:
“…I fear that the human race may with tall walls wall me,
With strong drugs dope me, with wise lies lure
In this poem, Louis expresses his worries for what the world’s tyranny could do to that of innocent children during the Second World War however he puts it through the perspective of an unborn child in its mother’s womb and it is ironic as babies are born with pure minds. The poem makes an intensive statement on the sordid state of the world and how living is a painful experience but being born is a terrifying one. The prenatal prayers of the unborn child are to protect it against the horrors of the contemporary world of …show more content…
They are fictional characters that are found in books or cartoons. In addition, this demonstrates the idea that these are the first stages of fear until when these fears transform into more realistic tragedies such as terrorist attacks, homicides and kidnapping. The child beseeches God to keep the evil creatures from him- ‘O hear me’- and it does this because it believes of it does not encounter these creatures then they will jot influence him in the actions that he takes and become evil.
As poem moves from stanza to stanza, the fears grow wider. In the second stanza, He explores more on what harm humans can do. During the war it was the age of concentration camps and this is a place where people are deliberately imprisoned to provide forced labour or to await mass execution:
“…I fear that the human race may with tall walls wall me,
With strong drugs dope me, with wise lies lure