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    Emily Dickinson begins her poem with “Because I could not stop for Death- He kindly stopped for me” (lines1-2). This means she’s been so busy‚ that she forgets about death‚ so he came‚ and kindly picked her up. She began talking about death as if it was a person using figure of speeches. She compares death to human as when she starts saying he picked her up in a carriage. Most people view death from a different perspective‚ such as a joyous day or a joyful ride to the grave yard. Dickinson explains

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    Because I could not stop for death is one of the many poems written by Emily Dickinson in the Realism Era. (1855-1870) The realism era brought ideas of facing the harsh realities of life and the common people contributing ideas to society. Emily Dickinson was on particular writer who‚ in this poem‚ reflects the ideas and concepts of death. In the poem‚ she writes about taking a carriage ride with death. this is presumably meant to symbolize someone who is dead‚ “traveling” with death. In the writing

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    In Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night‚” Thomas writes to his father‚ urging him to hang on to life. Throughout the poem‚ Thomas considers how others journey through life and how they perceive death when it comes upon them. Thomas constantly reminds his father not to willingly leave this world and to hang on to the life he has left. However‚ after thinking deeper about Thomas’s strife‚ I learned that Thomas does not have the best intentions for his father. By understanding the

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    in Tamil Nadu Higher Secondary Educational Service.  Syllabus: English (Subject Code: P02)  Unit-I – MODERN LITERATURE (1400-1600)  Poetry For Detailed Study Chaucer : Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Spenser : Faerie Queene - Book-I  For Non-detailed Study Spenser : Prothalamion and Epithalamion Wyatt‚ Surrey: Selections in Peacock’s English verse‚ Vol-I Ballads : Peacock - Vol-II  Prose For Detailed Study Bacon - Essays - Of Truth

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    that the human race will always push forward and will overcome harsh struggles. In Dylan Thomas’s poem Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night‚ many of the lines focus about death and the aspects of losing someone. To add‚ Thomas’s “overcoming” human struggle is symbolized by not submitting to death‚ but rather resisting it. Thomas wants humans to be in “rage against the dying of the light [death]” (3‚ Thomas).Thomas goes about many ways in which he tries to tell his audience that they should not just

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    you do forget someone and that she would be happier if you just forgot about someone than remember them and be sad for eternity. The poet distinctly creates a separation between the two sections not just because of the changing themes but also because when someone dies you are separated from them. Firstly‚ Rossetti makes the first two lines ambiguous because she says to ‘Remember her when I am gone’. This is ambiguous because as the reader you do not know if

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    which informs the non-existent inhabitants about date‚ time and ordinary events like birthdays‚ anniversaries or what they have to do during the course of the day. The happenings take place between the 4th and the 5th of August 2026 in the city of Allendale‚ California. On the morning of 4th August the house which is the only one left standing in a ruined city starts to do some daily tasks as it prepares breakfast‚ does the dishes and sends out tiny robot mice as cleaning animals. At the house’s west

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    title “Deaths and Entrances. Later he married and became a well known poet. Thomas’s most famous poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” published in 1951‚ three years

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    Death is a constant presence in life that can not be escaped and is experienced by everyone. Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go gentle into that good night” and Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” and both deal with different perspectives of death. Thomas’s poem looks at death from an external perspective of watching a person die where Dickinson’s poem looks at death through the perspective of a person experiencing death. These perspectives on death show the acceptance of death and eternity

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    What do these texts suggest to you about the interplay between fear and foresight when individuals make life altering choices‚ as well as attempt to secure the satisfaction of self-fulfillment and the effect of adversity on the human spirit? “A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.” In the poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”‚ the author suggests that

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