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The three main poems, “Remember”,“ A Mother in a Refugee Camp”, and “ Do not go gentle into that good night” all evoke the emotion of death but they all have different techniques in order to achieve this. These poems share common threads and similarities, but they also show contrasts in their attitudes towards death. “Poem at Thirty Nine”, “ The Vacuum” and “Do not stand at my grave and weep” also express the emotion of death sharing similarities with the main poems, but also contrasts in their attitudes towards death. Death is expressed through the use of tone in each of the poems. The tone of “Remember” in the octet is demanding. She is demanding her partner to remember her when she is gone. However, it changes significantly during the second half where her attitude fluctuates and becomes much more forgiving and hopeful. The tone of the octet is intense because the speaker is distressed and has a desire to be remembered after she dies. The intense tone is shown by the use of “gone away”. The word” gone creates the feeling of loneliness and disparity. The speaker also uses the word, “far” which suggests an extensive distance that she will travel. The extensive distance that she is referring to is death. The effect that “gone far away” suggests that there will be no form of communication and will not be able to reach or see her, which implies death. Also, the repetition of the words, “Remember me”, emphasizes her urgency and desire to be remembered. Instead of just asking the addressee to remember her, the speaker is in fact, commanding him to remember her; she is forcing the addressee, which shows insistence and longing to be remembered. The speaker also mentions the phrase, “It will be late to counsel then or pray”. The speake... ... middle of paper ... ... is the same meaning that all of it is important. “A Mother” and “The Vacuum” has a similar rhyme and rhythm scheme in the way that they use free flow and let their thoughts flow continuously to create as much emotional effect as possible. In conclusion, the poems “Remember”, “A Mother in a Refugee Camp”, “Do not go gentle into that good night”, express the emotion of death but different techniques are used to explore death. Many different structures, tones, point of views and many more literary devices are used in order to explore death in different ways. “Poem at Thirty Nine”, “ The Vacuum” and “Do not stand at my grave and weep” show links in the way they both interpret death but also show the many ways in exploring attitudes towards death. The poems have different attitudes towards death, but also show common threads in how they would like to interpret death.

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