Short Comment on Theme of 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night'

The theme of 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night' is that a person should resist against death and continue to live their lives. Two lines have been repeated throughout the poem and shout out the theme, they are; “Do ‎not go gentle into that good night” and “Rage, rage against the dying of the light”. The first repeated line is saying that a person should not go calmly into death. The second repeated line is saying that a person should struggle against the ending of life. Both lines reveal the theme clearly.

The Movie Invictus Response

The movie Invictus was fairly good as far as historical movies go. Most movies based on political events are boring because it is just trying to shove what happened at the audience. Of the methods Mandela used to unite the peoples of South Africa, getting everyone to support the rugby team had the most entertainment value which is why it was used in the movie. Mandela was portrayed as a hero and a great politician. The movie was good, but it did not have anything that put it above other good movies.
I would give the movie 3 out of 4 stars.

Comparing/Contrasting ‎of Twilight Entered My Room” by Paudelis Prevelakis and “Prelude #1” by T.S. Eliot‎

The poems, “Twilight Entered My Room” by Paudelis Prevelakis and “Prelude #1” by T.S. Eliot, share similarities, but they are also polar opposites in a way. Both tell about how wonderful twilight is using dense imagery, but they have different reasons for why it is great. Paudelis Prevelakis displays twilight as the last moment at the end of a great day and that it should be used to hold onto the passing day. T.S. Eliot disagrees and demonstrates how twilight is an escape from a cruddy day. Using personification as well as tactile imagery Paudelis gives twilight and sunlight a soft and kind personality. He has twilight caressing his feet which occurs for over one third of the poem. Eliot used auditory and olfactory imagery to describe how grey the day was. The auditory imagery he used were “The showers beat” (line 9) and “smells of steaks” (line 2). Rain crashing down onto walls, windows, and roofs makes a sound that tells people when they are in their house know that the day is grey without them having to look outside. The tone and mood of each poem is the same, but they are not the same as the other poem. The tone and mood of “Twilight Entered My Room” were positive while in “Prelude #1” they were negative. Both poems tell of how twilight is wonderful, but “Twilight Entered My Room” demonstrates it as the final part of a glorious day, while in “Prelude #1”, it is the relaxing end of a terrible day.

TPCASTT of The World Is Too Much With Us

Title:  We are stepping on nature's toes because we take up so much space and resources.

Paraphrase: We harvest and use up all the resources on our planet.
Most of the things in nature we have no claim to, but we use them anyways.
Humans have given away our connection to nature which was foolish thing to get rid of.
We have become unharmonized  with nature because its beauty doesn't make us feel as good as it used to.
I would join a religion long ago discarded, so that I could see more of the beauty of nature. When standing in a meadow I picture when nature was more respected like it was by the Greeks, and others.

Connotation:
Form: Petrarchan Sonnet    Octave- Stating a question
                                          Sestet- Answers the question
Diction: All the words have a heavy, dark feeling to to them which Wordsworth uses to set a forlorn mood.

• Sordid- meanly selfish.
• Pagan- used like a insult in a christian dominated world. Meant someone who had other spiritual beliefs other then christian.
• Creed- darker way to say a group which similar share beliefs.
• Forlorn- a heavier way of saying sad.

Point of View: First person; William Wordsworth says his opinions in the poem and empowers them. It poem starts with him talking about everyone including himself and then narrowing to just about him.

Allusions: All three allusions are deities; one being  the Christian God, and the other two being Greek sea gods.

• Proteas- A Greek sea god. He was able to transform into any animal of the sea.
• Triton- A Greek sea god. Son of Poseidon. He had a horn which he used to calm or raise the waves. 
• God- The single all powerful deity in Christianity.

Symbolism: The sea, winds, leaves, and lea represent nature.

Personification: 

• The sea bares her bosom
• The wind that will be howling

Attitude: The speaker is sad because we as a race are now unable to see the beauty in nature and he wishes for things to go back to be like it was when we respected nature and held it as deities.


Shifts: The first 8 lines are an octave presenting an issue while the last 6 lines, a sestet are anwsering it. Changes point of view at line 9 from we to I.

Title: The beauty of nature has been lost because we can access images of of its wonder on the internet, which makes the unique seem common. Also through science we have found the reasons for why and how things occur in nature which takes away the mysterious beauty of it.

Theme: Humanity has lost its respect for nature which is gravely bad.

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night literary devices

Referents: Referent 1, Referent 2
Alliteration:
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Personification
Simile

Do not go gentle into that good ,night 
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;       

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,

Because their words had forked no lightning, they     imagery
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright

Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,    imagery
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,   imagery

And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight     oxymoron

Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,       imagery, simile

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray,    imagery

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Metaphors: 

"good night" is compared to death

"their words had forked no lightning" meaning that their ideas and opinions have had no impact on anyone or anything

Personification

"frail deeds might have danced" frail deeds are given the ability to dance

Simile

"Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay" The eyes are blazing like meteors burning up through Earth's atmosphere

 

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Paraphrase

Live life the to the fullest
When one has grown old and looks back at their life they have regrets but also achievements.
Fight to stay alive.

Wise men know and respect that their deaths are coming for them.
The only problem they have with dying is that their ideas have had no impact on the world.
Before they die they try to analyse their lives to see if it had any meaning.

Good men spend their lives doing good deeds and helping others,
but when the time comes for them to die they realize that their deeds won't be remembered and mean nothing when they leave this world.
In what time they have left they struggle to fill it with missed experiences.

Wild men who lived crazy, wild and free lives,
learn of what things they missed from living such a wild lifestyle.
They attempt to settle down and get forgiven from mistakes they made.

Grave men close to death and who have health problems,
live life as well as they can in their situation.
When their time comes they struggle against dying because they know being alive and crippled is better then being dead.

You father in this condition,
I wish for you to
not to leave me now
and to fight back what ills you and stay alive.

The Bull Moose Ending

The human bystanders
not knowing life's truth,
do not see a living creature,
but a source of amusement.

Oblivious they had their fun,
while the bull moose took its last breath.
They soon grew bored and left,
leaving the corpse to rot.

Later the remains would be taken,
and all about them forgotten.


I picked to do a negative ending because I felt the poem was foreshadowing the death of the bull moose. The poem had a sad felling to it which is another reason I chose to have the bull moose die. I thought the bull moose was representing an aspect of nature which human abuse.