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I’m very connected to this poem because I’ve had times in life where I have had to choose between two paths to take. I ended up not taking either path instead creating my own path. During high school I always thought I’d be like every other cliché American teenager and move off to college and experience life away from home. However, as I was making this decision my father was diagnosed with three types of cancer which redirected my path. I currently live at home and attend a smaller campus rather than a large university because it allowed me to be involved with my father during this time in his life. The path I chose was not an easy decision, but sometimes we have to make decisions and create new paths that will not only affect us but others that we are connected to. Whether it’s a choice in life or not life happens.

     I really like this poem because it makes me want to get out of bed in the morning or turn off the television and do something productive like read a book, or go to the gym. It perfectly reveals the true meaning of carpe diem. The very first sentence alone tells me to get things done while I can. Now when I think of “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”, it will remind me of carpe diem, which will make me want to make every minute of my day account for something good whether it be reading a chapter

The first stanza appears to have a rhyme scheme in which the second and fourth lines rhyme. However, this rhyme scheme is not perfect as the remaining stanzas do not follow this pattern. As death is personified throughout the entire poem, lines 2 and 3 introduce him as a kind gentleman that has come the take the speaker for an enjoyable carriage ride. The second stanza shows their courtesy to one another by his patient towards her as he “slowly drove-He knew no haste”, and her giving up her “labor and..leisure too” to join him for a ride.

Stanza 4- When the poet is older he will tell this story of the choice he needed to make. He made the less popular choice, and took the road many others don’t take, and that changed his life.

Changes and continuities from the classical to the post-classical cover a wide range of political, cultural, religious and economic shifts as populations grew and societies became more complex. The classical empires of Rome, Han China, Gupta India and Archaemenid Persia fell due to external and internal forces and were replaced by the larger empires of the post classical Byzantine; Tsui, Tang and Song in China and the Caliphates in Persia. Only India did not return to an over reaching centralized empire. During the post-classical Dar el-Islam united much of Eurasia with a single religious adherence to Islam. Also, the largest empire the world was ever to see, the Mongols, rose during the

The first stanza concludes by stating, “The carriage held but just ourselves/And Immortality” (Lines 3-4). These lines are used to acknowledge that there is a difference between death and time, because while they work in unison they still are not one and the same. Time has control over our lives during both mortality and

     The structure of the last three stanzas leaves us hanging from each one. If there was a song to this as music would rise in volume and pitch at each of the final stanza lines. If you read the poem right, the lines seem to echo in your head and slow your progress to the next stanza.

For example, the narrator pleads, “Do not go gentle into that good night / Old age should burn and rave at close of day” (1433). This second line right away changes the tone of the poem, as it went from the first line sounding as if it was a demand to not fall asleep, to a plea to stay alive. As I continue “the close of day” and “night” draw parallels to death as the narrator is begging to someone as they come closer to death. Thomas believes that instead of resigning to death, instead of waiting for time to run out, you are to “burn and rave” or go out with a bang. The second stanza refers back to what I touched on earlier as Thomas wants an alternative to go against a slow, natural death. “Though wise men at their end know dark is right / Because their words had forked no lightning they / Do not go gentle into that good night” (1433). As a reader, I believe this holds true, as I have never been on the brink of death but I have the thought of what if I were to die right now? Would I be satisfied with what I accomplished and the way I went out? The first line in that stanza explains that, even though men know that “dark” (death) is “right” (natural), if they may feel like they made no impact on society, or didn’t “fork any lightning” they do not give in to death, they fight and try to make what they feel is right before they

The Poem begins with a personification of death as "kindly" (3). By doing this, the speaker introduces a portrayal on death that might have conflictions. Most of the times, death has a negative connotation. Whether it is an inevitable or tragic view, it opposes to what is seen in the poem. The speaker accepts death as a friendly invitation when the time is right, rather than something that is bound to happen. The speaker then joins immortality, personified as a passenger in a carriage. Immortality simply cannot be a passenger as it is a non-living thing. The reasoning for this could be that immortality ties together the link between the speaker and death, ultimately introducing the voyage to come. The first stanza sets a precedent of a meter to follow throughout most of the poem. The first line contains eight

The last two lines act as a slap in the face. Every element works toward death, and the speaker almost slips into eternal rest. One can see him, putting the

In the last part of the book, The Road, the man dies. The book ends with death, which relates to the hopelessness also shown in the book. The hopelessness results in death, despite the survival skills of the characters. In the end, survival doesn’t matter because hopelessness trumps survival. The poem ends with life. The author says, “Give all for life: give your whole self!” (Arnold, 24). The author says to give everything you are and you have for life. Life is above all else. This relates to the hopefulness found in the poem. The hopefulness results in life, because of the author’s survival and determination. The Road and “Man” reflect their tone in their outcome, because The Road ends with death, while “Man” ends with

Because the poem is long, it won’t be quoted extensively here, but it is attached at the end of the paper for ease of reference. Instead, the paper will analyze the poetic elements in the work, stanza by stanza. First, because the poem is being read on-line, it’s not possible to say for certain that each stanza is a particular number of lines long. Each of several versions looks different on the screen; that is, there is no pattern to the number of lines in each stanza. However, the stanzas are more like paragraphs in a letter than

People would not want to hear that their loved ones merely gave up and died passively. This poem in itself is a celebration of life, the poem is not only about death but it is an affirmation of life. To further emphasise the points being made Dylan Thomas utilises a wide range of literary devices. Parallelism is used from lines seven to fifteen to juxtapose the different attitudes of the so called “genres” of men at their death. This is used to outline that if you continuously lead one set type of lifestyle whether it is as a “wild man”, a “grave man” or a “good man” you will not be satisfied when your time comes to die. The only true way to be satisfied is to live a life of balance; only with a good contrast can you be at peace.

Throughout the poem, Thomas relates the passing of a day to a lifetime. He refers to death as ‘that good night’ and ‘the dying of the light’ repeatedly. This metaphor shows the inevitability of death, in the same way that the end of each day is inevitable. Additionally, this metaphor comes at the end of the last line of each stanza, making the form imitate the ‘good night’ coming at the end of the day and death at the end of life. Despite this acknowledgement of the assuredness of death, Thomas insists that ‘old age’, a use of metonymy to represent the elderly, should ‘burn and rave at close of day’. Burning

Many people have both feared and questioned death throughout the ages but when it’s time to die, two kinds of people emerge: those who accept it and wait to die, and those who keep fighting. Dylan Thomas describe the importance of continuing to fight in his poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”, which he wrote for his dying father. Firstly, there is lots of symbolism in the poem, which helps to develop the theme of never giving up. Secondly, the author uses many literary devices, which help to develop the main theme of the text, which is to never stop fighting. Lastly, there is lots of imagery used to help develop the theme of persevering until the end even more. Death is all around us but it is important to persevere and keep fighting