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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night By Dylan Thomas
To many death is a very Controversial subject. Some believe you should go with ease and not fear the unknowingness of the afterlife, while others conclude you should battle your ending days until the light is ripped from your palms. Dylan Thomas, a poet, also carries that belief of fighting until that end, get the most out of life and use the time you have here on this earth to make you mark and create a legacy. We aren’t here for a long time so make it a good time. Throughout his poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” Dylan Thomas illuminates a sort of neutral-adverse tone by using monosyllabic connotative diction such as “Good men , the last wave by,crying how bright/ Their frail deeds might have danced in a Green Bay/ Rage, rage against …show more content…
Now, we must think about what happens when we lose the game of life. In this lifetime, you take losses everyday, everyone does. Loss has no size, no mass, no tolerance or strict biase desire for any specific being. Catherine Davis made sure to capture that through her work “After a time”. This poem releases an eagerly negative, but truthful tone. Doing so by using cacophonous abstract vocabulary containing generally monosyllabic words or phrases for example, “ So we, who would go raging , will go tame/ When what we have we can no longer use/ After time , all losses are the same / And we go stripped at last the way we came.” (Catherine Davis 16-19) we can depict the dept of this writing as saying appreciate what we have while we have it and be tame , thus as fast as we were given it is just as fast as it can be taken away. Losses , big or small are all the same “One more thing lost is one thing less to lose/ And we go stripped at last the way we came.” (Catherine 2-3) When you lose one thing, you know have fewer things you have to worry about, so don’t blame and find excuses for losing instead, take it with a grain of salt, Cherish what you have left and humble yourself. Nothing can save you from

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