"Shakespeare and Thomas"

Throughout time, death has been known to be a topicin many forms of art, especially in poetry. William Shakespeare and Dylan Thomas made use of death in their poetry, and even though they both lived in a whole different scenario and time period. Both could portray death as how it is still considered in our society, as an impact. Death is the one thing that people mostly fear, and one we cannot prevent from happening. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night from Thomas and Sonnet 73 from Shakespeare depict death. Both poems were written for a person they were acquainted with, in Thomas's case; he wrote it to his father, who was dying from cancer. Shakespeare and Thomas used stanza to make the poem flow more easily, since using rhyme makes the reader keep the beat of the poems. In Thomas's Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, the reader is able to feel the desperation of the author. The desperation towards deaths' approach, makes us feel how impotent the author feels, since he is not able to stop death from taking his father away; that is why, he pleads his father to resist, to be strong and fight the darkness that approaches in every second that passes by. Thomas uses six stanzas in which he describes stages of men's lives. The author might have had a really close relationship with his father to be able to notice the every detail of how in the end, the wise men, the good men, the wild men, and the grave men reveal in front of him through his father. In the other hand, in Shakespeare's Sonnet 73, Shakespeares tone is more serene. He tells that other person to love, to live, to accept, that one day death will take him away, but to enjoy the life that still remains. Shakespeare expresses more of the natural way of how life works, and how it has to keep its' cycle. He also talks about resignation towards death, but encourages us to not stop loving even if death will be our fate. The authors use of stanza created a more appealing poem. Even if one used it to portray a resisting poem and the other one to portray calmness towards death, both succeded into making their point, to express a feeling and to make it noticeable to the one intended to and to the reader. Death is not to accept, but to fight. Death is to prepare for, and to welome it.