The poems "Afterwards", "To an Athlete Dying Young", and "Do not go gentle into that good night" deal with the subject of death. All three of the poems have a similarity, but they are mostly different. The similarity on the poems is that the speakers want to remember someone or be remembered, after their deaths, in some special way.
             In the poem "Afterwards", the speaker wonders if he will be remembered as a person who loves nature. The young runner in the poem "To an Athlete Dying Young" dies at the peak of his career. The runner's last thought was that the people of his town will remember him as a champion, and because he is dead, when someone breaks his record it will not affect him because he will not be around to see it happen. The speaker in the poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" wants his father to live every second that he has left. The speaker wants to remember his father as someone who lived his life to the fullest. He does not want his father to die waiting in a bed for death to come. He wants him to die doing something he likes, that death takes him by surprise, not waiting for it.
             Although the three poems dealt with the subject of death, in content they were all different. In "Afterwards", the speaker was a nature lover who wanted to be remembered as such, the young athlete in "To an Athlete..." who dies at the peak of his career and the speaker in "Do not go gentle..." that wants his father to live his life to the fullest, all want the same thing, to remember someone or be remembered in some special way.
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