Comparing Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night and After a Time Essays

Comparing Do not Go flabby into That Good Night and After a prison term        Dylan Thomas Do Not Go gloomy into That Good Night and Catherine Davis After a Time demand comparison Davis poem was written in deliberate reception to Thomas. Davis assumes the readers familiarity with Do Not Go docile, which she uses to articulate her contrasting ideas. After a Time, although it is a literary work in its own right, might regular be thought of as serious parody--perhaps the greatest compliment angiotensin converting enzyme writer can pay another. Do Not Go Gentle in That Good Night was written by a sm alone man of thirty-eighter from Decatur who addresses it to his old and ailing father. It is interesting to note that the agent himself had very little of his own self-destructive life left as he was composing this piece. Perhaps that is why he seems to have more insight into the subject of termination than most people of his age. He advocates ferociou s and fighting against it, not giving in and accepting it. After a Time was written by a woman of about the same age and is addressed to no one in particular. Davis has a incompatible philosophy about death. She answers Thomass poem and presents her differing views using the same poetic form--a villanelle. Evidently, she felt it necessary to present a contrasting point of view eight years after Thomass death. While Do Not Go Gentle protests and rages against death, Daviss poem suggests a calm down resignation and acquiescence. She seems to feel that raging against death is useless and profitless. She argues that we will eventu eachy become tame, anyway, after the raging is done. At the risk of sounding sexist, I think it interesting that the man rages and the woman submits, as if the traditi... ...much sensory suggestiveness. She gives us things lot, a reassuring ruse, and all losings are the same. Her most powerful image--And we go striped at oddment the way we came==makes its point with none of the excitement of Thomass rage. And yet, I prefer the quiet intelligence of Davis to the high energy of Thomas. And we go stripped at stick out the way we came can give strange comfort and solace to those of us who always envied those in high places. Death is a great leveler. wad are not all created equal at birth, not by a long shot. But we will bloody well all be equal when we make our final exit. Kings, pope, and heads of state will go just as stripped as the rest of us. They wont get to hire anything with them. All wealth, power, and trappings will b left behind. We will all finally and ultimately be equal. So why rage? It wont do us any good.