Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, By Dylan Thomas
In these two stories, one about death called "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas and one about love, "I am Trying to Break Your Heart" by Kevin Young, I would like to compare the two poems, asking the question: How do the authors show them developing their themes? Another question I would like to ask is, what are the differences and similarities both poems share when it comes to love versus death? When we start with the first poem I read, Do Not Go Into That Gentle Good Night by Dylan Thomas, the theme appears in the first and last stanzas. The author writes; "Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at the close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." ( Thomas ) When you look at the choice of words he uses, "old age should burn" or "Rage, rage against the
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Although when it comes to the death or the upcoming death of his father, you see this whole demeanor change, the way he writes shows a more frantic and fragile state. It is almost as if he is begging and pleading for his father to fight death, not to give up, and to continue living, not just for himself but for him as well because he is on the verge of tears. When I look at how other people look at the poem's theme and read how others have analyzed it, they pick up on the same thing but have slightly different reactions. The way Andrew Walker wrote his analysis seemed to have the same analysis when discovering the theme. However, he interpreted it differently, where the theme was somber and aggressive to me, but to Walker, it was more aggressive rather than a good mix of both. He states, "Throughout the first five stanzas of the poem, the speaker spends the lines generally talking about death and how one should stand up in the face of
Although when it comes to the death or the upcoming death of his father, you see this whole demeanor change, the way he writes shows a more frantic and fragile state. It is almost as if he is begging and pleading for his father to fight death, not to give up, and to continue living, not just for himself but for him as well because he is on the verge of tears. When I look at how other people look at the poem's theme and read how others have analyzed it, they pick up on the same thing but have slightly different reactions. The way Andrew Walker wrote his analysis seemed to have the same analysis when discovering the theme. However, he interpreted it differently, where the theme was somber and aggressive to me, but to Walker, it was more aggressive rather than a good mix of both. He states, "Throughout the first five stanzas of the poem, the speaker spends the lines generally talking about death and how one should stand up in the face of