Dylan Thomas and TS Eliot are probably the two poets moodiest are required to read during high schoo

Dylan Thomas and TS Eliot are probably the two poets moodiest are required to read during high school. The real shame of the impression left is that, when read correctly, are really full of life-affirming things that makes good poetry so endlessly readable. To prove a point, let's look at two of his most taciturn.

Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night" is a song (see also: poem ridiculously controlled) urges us to resist death, even our breath. The structure of the poem has an inner tension that complements its literal message, while the constant one to two truly mimics the test of time, hard vowels and consonants poem discordant flow control, obeying the command of the storyteller not to go without a fight.

The word "anger" that summarizes the entire message of the poem, appears eight times in only nineteen lines - which is a form of defiance in itself, since the word is hard and difficult to pronounce. (Just say aloud RAYdjuh.) Even more important, is the first word in the poem to interrupt the pattern of emphasizing each syllable seconds, thereby launching a literary birdie implicit ticking of time. As to the first stanza:

NO GEN-tle go-EN into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at the end of the day
* * Rage, rage, a counter-DY-tion of light.

The discord caused by repeating "anger" attracts all the attention away from the end of the line, putting the focus on the fight instead of defeat. On the contrary, it is no coincidence that the phrase sounds softer replica watches than in the poem is "the dying of the light" as death is, after all, what threatens to take the fight to us all. In the final stanza, we find that the narrator is specific to his dying father, which explains the urgency of the poem and push the argument beyond the hypothetical.

Song of love TS Eliot J. Alfred Prufrock is also about death, but in contrast to not go gentle into that good night, is distracted, wandering verse of a man trying to convince himself that life is not a race. Despite the structural irregularity of the poem resists the temporary power in general, is more an act of replica watches denial of courage; Prufrock deliberates obsessively, and before long elements, some of his ideas begin to repeat. "There will be time," he likes to say, without realizing that this statement is repeated becomes the clock of his own mortality.

After running the reader ambiguous, timberland sale undecided circles, Prufrock comes to the depressing conclusion that he should not "disturb the universe" to be at risk. At the time of delivery is changed to more regular, structured stanza of the poem, which begins with "No, I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be." Prufrock is then described as a poor laborer who will leave no legacy, so no surprise that suddenly finally fallen into step with the rhythm of time - and the inevitability of defeat.

Unlike men "serious" poem by Thomas, timberland sale Prufrock "do not see with blinding sight" when confronted with his own transience. On the contrary, it deviates from society, because their sentences "fix you in a formulated phrase" - just to set the phrases it more carefully made in the poem when he decides to submit to the elderly. Whereas Dylan Thomas unrepentantly screams in the face, TS Eliot just shows why it is better to go out with an explosion of a whimper.