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

Comparing Do Not Go Gentle into That Good night and After a Time        Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night and Catherine Davis After a Time demand comparison Davis poem was compose in deliberate response to Thomas. Davis assumes the readers familiarity with Do Not Go Gentle, which she uses to formulate her severalize ideas. After a Time, although it is a literary work in its own right, might even be thought of as estimable parody--perhaps the greatest compliment ane writer can pay another. Do Not Go Gentle in That Good Night was write by a young man of thirty-eight who addresses it to his old and suffer father. It is interesting to note that the author himself had very little of his own suicidal life left as he was composing this piece. Perhaps that is wherefore he seems to have more insight into the subject of death than closely people of his age. He advocates raging 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 different philosophy about death. She answers Thomass poem and presents her differing views employ 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 quiet leniency and acquiescence. She seems to feel that raging against death is useless and profitless. She argues that we leave eventually run low tame, anyway, after the raging is done. At the risk of sounding sexist, I infer 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 losses are the same. Her most powerful image--And we go striped at last the way we came==makes its point with none of the frenzy of Thomass rage. And yet, I prefer the quiet intelligence of Davis to the high energy of Thomas. And we go stripped at last the way we came can give queer comfort and solace to those of us who always envied those in high places. ending is a great leveler. People are not all created couple 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 take 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.