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What is the meaning of life? Life is a beautiful mystery, adventure that we all experience. Life is like one of those chose your own adventure: if you don’t like what’s happening, you can go back a chose a different pathway, but nothing last forever and that’s when death steps in. Dudley Randall’s “To the Mercy Killers” uses irony to capture the speaker’s pain, and their willpower to live, while Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” uses raw emotions to capture a son’s pain about his dying father giving up his willpower to stay alive.
The main theme of “To the Mercy Killers” is life. No one truly wants to look death in the eyes, because that would mean that everything they work for has ended. “To the Mercy Killers” has a gloomy atmosphere, with a beseech tone of voice. Throughout this poem the speaker begs to have a chance to stay alive. Proof of this is when Randall writes,” If ever mercy moves you murder me. I pray you, kindly killers, let me live”. (1-2) Another example of the speaker pleading to stay alive is at the last few lines where Randall writes, “…even ...

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