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    Well-known poet and writer, Dylan Thomas in his poem, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” describes the written letter he wrote to his dying father. Thomas is telling his father to not let death take upon him and “rage” against it. Thomas knows that death is not avoidable but that does not have to forego it. Thomas’ purpose is to urge someone to fight. Thomas wanted his father to fight for life and not give up and to allow for death to take him. The reader can see the emotions that Thomas…

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    conflict between dying easily and fighting to live. Thomas wrote this poem for his father who was dying from pneumonia. We see from this poem that often people regret not being as good as they should be, and so they fight to continue living, they “rage, rage against the dying of the light.” (line 3) This shows us that we may be in the same place as those men mentioned in the poem, the : “wise” (4), “good” (7), “wild” (10), and “grave” (13). In the first stanza of the poem, it says “Do not go…

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    Dylan Thomas makes strong use of parallel structure to deliver his message to the reader with his euphemised terms. “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” (Thomas 3) This line appears in the poem four times. Its counterpart line, “Do not go gentle into the good night.” (Thomas 6), appears three times in comparison. Although in contrast to rage against the light seems like an aggressive line, it’s easy to draw the line and realize the metonymy association: light meaning life, and…

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    is about the narrator who is dying insulting death and stating that a Christian lives on forever. Both of these poems rhymed. The poem by Dylan Thomas uses the word “rage” which means fighting. In the story it states, “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” (Thomas 772). In both works, both the characters are fighting against death. Interpretation: The theme of both of theses poems is death. In these poems, the authors refer to death as something you can try to fight off and…

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    tears” is another metaphor, “tears”, the poet has admitted that that the death is irresistible, and the sadness of his father’s incoming death. “Fierce”, at the other hand, it means to resist and fight against the death. The poem ends with “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light”, the refrains further strengthening the theme of the poem: don’t succumb to the threat of death, to overcome as many as difficulties as you can, and fight until the last…

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    Do Not Go Gentle

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    The poem also has few conjunctions, words are mostly connected with commas “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” (3) “Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray” (17) which means there are more stressed word in the poem, which makes the poem have an intense rhythm. Finally the poem could be said to be a poem about the…

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    Death; Death is a short simple word that holds an abundance of meaning. Everyone has felt deaths powerful, heart-wrenching grip and some have a difference of opinion on death. Many believe death is the beginning of a new life and others believe it is the end of a life. William Cullen Bryant, and Dylan Thomas have rather contrasting views on death, and this is primarily due to differences in their lives as well as their religion. These are both important aspects pertaining to death and can be…

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    Thomas starts off immediately addressing someone who is dying,then urgently addresses his dying father at the end of the poem asking him to fight against death and to find meaning in life. Another key part of the poem that shows the theme are the shifts. In ‘Do not go gentle into the good night’, 3 shifts are made by Thomas. The first is in the beginning stanza when the speaker addresses an unknown…

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    unyielding and relentless as death approaches until the last second, the author implies that death is imminent. Despite the poem’s portrayal of grief and defying death, Dylan Thomas incorporates literary devices to convey that even after the endeavor against the inevitable, there is a renewal and light after death. In the first stanza the narrator is advising…

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    The poem “The Thought-Fox” is written by Ted Hughes’ in 1957. The poem exists out of descriptive and figurative language; this language is used to emphasize the intrinsic and complex relationship between a poet and the poet literary creations. The poem is a six-stanza poem that is all quatrains, with one or two full end rhymes. The poet carefully used different punctuation and enjambment to the rhythms of the fox as it moves onto the page come through. The poem deals with 6 stanzas and 4…

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