Compare And Contrast Emily Dickinson And Dylan Thomas

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Dylan Thomas and Emily Dickinson: Death is Inevitable
Birth and death are two inevitable life events, which we will all inevitably experience throughout our existence. Each day is indefinite, consequently making the topic of death popular amongst writers. Poets Emily Dickinson and Dylan Thomas depicted their emotions of death through their literature, and thenceforth shared the idea with their readers. Emily Dickinson wrote #449 in the year 1862, and Dylan Thomas wrote, “Do not Go Gentle into that Goodnight” in 1951. The two poets, Emily Dickinson and Dylan Thomas, used the opposing themes of death throughout their literature. In Emily Dickinson’s #449, the theme related to death is compared through the juxtaposition of beauty and truth. On …show more content…

Within “Do not Go Gentle into that Goodnight”, Thomas presents his readers with a sense of urgency and determination for his father to fight on. Whereas the tone present within Dickinson’s piece is quite serene, using the description of moss slowly covering the lips and tombstones of the speakers (9-12). The repetition of phrase “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” shows the increasing intensity and passion of Thomas’ father to continue his fight. However, Dickinson’s tone is very straightforward; for example, the sentences “I died for Beauty-but was scarce/When One who died for Truth, was lain”. Though, both speakers in “#449” lived very different lives, striving for both beauty and truth, in death, they were …show more content…

Thomas and Dickinson convey their message of death in different ways, allowing the readers to view life in two separate ways. However, they encounter the same ending being their demise. With the death of his father, and the principles of beauty and truth, both are subject to the effects of time. Dickinson acknowledges that those who strive for absolute goodness are defeated by death quickly, therefore, only the good die young. Thomas’s purpose was to convince his sick father to continue his fight, and his effort to fight was everything. We are not promised tomorrow, and with that we must have the ambition to achieve our goals with the time we

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