Comparison of Dylan Thomas’s Poetry
While reading the poems “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” and “The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower”, I noticed some similarities and many differences. I will attempt to bring some of these under higher scrutiny, and try to explain them as best I can. The first subject I would like to look at is theme. In “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”, I believe that the theme can be described by the cliched phrase “You can’t escape death.” The poem basically describes how different types of men react to death and the knowledge of their own coming death. No matter what they do or how they react, though, none manage to escape it. In “The Force that through the Green Fuse Drive the Flower”, I believe the theme to be Time. I capitalize the word because in the poem, it is “The Force”. It is the main “character”, the subject of the entire poem. I came to
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Approximate Word count = 596
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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