With it’s tight structure, poetry can accommodate great passion. Do
you agree with this statement? You should base your answer on a close
examination of two or three poems covering at least two groups.
‘With it’s tight structure, poetry can accommodate great passion’.
Do you agree with this statement? You should base your answer on a
close examination of two or three poems covering at least two groups.
Although it could be argued that poetry can accommodate great passion
I disagree with this statement. The two poems I have chosen to
examine, ‘Marged’ by Gillian Clarke and ‘Do Not Go Gentle into That
Good Night’ by Dylan Thomas, show different emotions that I believe
disprove the statement. The first, ‘Marged’, is lacking in emotion
and the second, ‘Do Not Go Gentle’, does more than accommodate the
passion, it emphasises and releases the feelings felt by the poet.
‘Marged’ by Gillian Clarke is a Shakespearean sonnet, with three
quatrains and a couplet at the end, however the poet has altered the
form to change the style of the poem. For example the lines do not
have ten syllables as a normal sonnet but vary in length. Also there
is only a half-rhyme scheme with words such as ‘bed’ and ‘died’ in the
first quatrain on alternate lines. It could be argued that the tight
structure of the sonnet restrains the passion felt because of the
syllables but as Gillian Clarke has ignored this rule and has
different numbers of syllables this sonnet does not constrain
passion. This argument would apply more if Clarke had written a
passionate poem but as it is the poem is lacking in emotion of any
kind. ‘Marged’ is about Clarke thinking of the previous owner of the
house she lives in. The words do not emote a sad mood; Clarke is
remembering the dead old lady but is herself distanced from the death
and therefore does not feel sad. The use of the preposition ‘she’
shows the reader that the feelings are distanced; use of ‘you’ would
have made the poem more direct and emotional.
In contrast to this, ‘Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night’ by Dylan
Thomas is a very emotional poem in the traditional form of a
villanelle. 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night' is addressed to
the poets father and is plea that the man doesn’t die quietly. The
use of ‘you’ makes the poem very personal and it is clear from the
start of the poem that the poet feels very strongly about the issue.
In the title and first line the emphasis is on the words ‘Not’ and
The poems “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley and “Do not go Gentle into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas are very similar, yet have their differences. The poem “Invictus” was written to self motivate himself after he was in the hospital with tubercular arthritis. It was important to the poet to stay self motivated to get through the hard times. As the poet is having troubles with his physical health he is keeping and lifting his mental health by staying positive. In the poem “Do not go Gentle into that Good Night” the poet is telling a story about how a father is on his deathbed but his son won’t let him accept death and gives him motivation to stay alive for him.
Thomas, Dylan. “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.” Poemhunter.com. n.p. n.d. Web. 21 Apr. 2014.
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