Both Auden’s “Musee des Beaux Arts” and Dylans “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” can be seen as having a theme of tragedy. Both concern the topic of death, although each has a different message. Auden is one side of the spectrum saying that death and suffering are natural parts of the life cycle, while Thomas wants to fight death because there is still much to be done. But throughout both of these poems tragedy is a prevailing theme.
Auden describes how the world continues spinning in spite of the suffering and tragedy going on. He believes that tragedy and suffering are all what you make of it. Tragedy occurs when other people are just living their lives such as “…eating or opening a window or just walking dully along….” For example, in the story of Icarus, someone must have heard him plummet to the ground and die. But it was not a big deal for the ploughman. It was not an “important failure; the sun shone as it had to on the white legs disa
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Thomas, however, wants to fight against this tragedy of death. From the title, I got the idea that Auden thought that through death and tragedy, art was created. All of these men rage against death, or the dying of the light. There should be no easy acceptance of tragedy and death as part of a natural cycle. Everyone experiences it and life must go on. His father is on his death bed and he both curses and blesses him because he knows he is dying but still has a little bit of time left on earth. Thomas wants his father to resist death as well.
Thomas, on the other hand, believes people should fight against death or tragedy. Grave men who are close to death look back in hind sight and realize all of their potential. He describes how wise men don’t go gentle into the good night because they realize they have yet to achieve anything great in their lives.
Tragedy has two different themes inside of itself in the two poems. ” The ship had to continue on with life and had somewhere to go.
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