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Compare and Contrast: Dylan Thomas and Robert Frost

Introduction

The first verse that Dylan Thomas ever published, when he was only eighteen, was an early type of "And Death Shall Have No Dominion." The cycle of life and death formed a unchanging underlying theme all through his verse since that soonest effort. In "Do Not proceed Gentle into That proceedod Night," a going plea to his dying dad, death takes on a new and intensely individual significance for Thomas. David John Thomas was an significant leverage throughout his son Dylan's life. A grammar school English teacher, he had a deep love for language and literature which he passed on to his son (Maud, pp 25-128).

Dylan Thomas compare with Robert Frost

"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" was in all prospect created in 1945 whenD. J. Thomas was seriously ill; although, it was not released until after his death on December 16, 1952. Thomas dispatched the verse to a ally, Princess Caetani, in the jump of 1951, telling her that the "only person I can't display the little enclosed verse to is, of course, my dad who doesn't understand he's dying." After his father's death, the verse was encompassed in the assemblage In homeland Sleep. Ironically Dylan Thomas himself died just a year later. The verse talks about diverse ways to approach death in old age. It supports affirming life up until the last wind, rather than discovering to accept death quietly.

Now the paper will look at one of the great poems of Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night. This verse compares the years of life with the dying of the lightweightweightweight of day. The poem seems to compare light and darkness; seeing the light as good and the darkness as death or evil. ...