Toward the Sunset
Dylan Thomas' poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" and Joan Aleshire's poem "Slipping" carry out the same thematic message about the "[...] cycle of birth and death [...]." (Dylan Thomas. 18 Sept. 2002 1) and that people should face it with ease. Both poets present the theme to the audience in their own style. Dylan Thomas uses a negative attitude of the aging man "[...] with your fierce tears [...]" (84) toward death to express the theme while Joan Aleshire presents it with the a more positive, lovable, "[...] reserve has slipped from his feeling [...]" (86) attitude. However, as one reads the two poems, one finds the similarities and differences in the ideas and techniques that Dylan Thomas and Joan Aleshire use to create the theme. Dylan Thomas presents the theme through tone, figurative language, rhyme, and diction. The situation of a "[...] father, there on the sad height, / Curse, bless, me now with you fierce tears [...]" (16-17) creates a serious, sad tone for the poem. Beside tone, Dylan Thomas also uses figurative language such as simile and personification. He uses simile to advice the old man that "Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay," (14). He animates "[the] frail deeds [...] danced in th
(1-9),contains no final, matching sounds in the words to create rhyme, and each complete sentence comes from two or more lines instead of one. Similarly, Joan Aleshire also reveals some techniques in "Slipping". In Dylan Thomas' and Joan Aleshire's selections, each presents the theme in their own style or technique. Even though Joan Aleshire's style of writing contains some techniques similar to those of Dylan Thomas such as figurative language, she possesses her own unique style. ] burn and rave at close day" (2), to show the poem's "[. In literature, the authors have a diversity of choices of how to carry out their works. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. For example, the first stanza, Age comes to my father as a slow slipping: the leg that weaken, will barely support him, the curtain of mist that falls over one eye. She gives darkness human qualities by letting it "[. Beside choosing descriptive words to describe the old man, the author uses flashback to compare and show the old man changes when he ages. As the foundation of writing, these techniques help authors in carrying out their excellent works that express their thoughts, feelings, and ideas.
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