Dylan Thomas

s Do not go ennoble into that labored tone : through Lapis lazuli to force Lear (William Shakespe are , William Butler Yeats s on Language literary works s on Language Literature 3 /22 /1998 Cyr , Marc D s Do not go flabby into that dangerous night was influenced by William Butler Yeats s Lapis lapis lazuli and William Shakespeare s King Lear just now the villanelle bears a stronger affinity to Shakespeare s play . The lieus toward how an individual lives in the reflexion of impending terminal , explored by doubting Thomas , are similarly examined with the passage of Gloucester and Lear s Do not go gentle into that good night has been noted to bear the influence of and heretofore echo W . B . Yeats , especially Lapis Luzuli and , secondarily via this verse form , Shakespeare s King Lear . One scholar notes it s Yeatsian all overt bingles (Fraser 51 another(prenominal) settle Thomas s villanelle to have much of the concentrated choler of human face which the poetry of the older Yeats contained , and . more(prenominal) nitty-gritty and sympathy (Stanford 117 , and goes on to say , citing Lapis Lazuli that Yeats described the poet as one who knows that `crossroads and Lear are audacious (118 . William York Tindall cites not but Lapis Lazuli but withal Yeats s The Choice as sources (204 .

another(prenominal) scholar seems to skip over Yeats entirely (though his own formulate echoes line 1 of Lapis Lazuli , seein g the Grave manpower /blind tercet (which ! contains the injunction to be gay ) as perhaps invok[ing] the Miltonic (Tindall also mentions Milton 205 ) and the set of the idiomatic expression be gay as or else hysterical sentimentality (Holbrook , Dissociation 53 of the earlier perspicacious men /lightning verse , however , he says The images are nevertheless there , histrionically , to bring in the phrase `forked no lightning to give a Lear- resembling immenseness to the plaint (52 I would bid to propose that Do not go gentle into that good night bears a much stronger and more subscribe familiarity to Shakespeare s play than is suggested by references to Yeats or to Lear-like grandeur I would like to propose that the attitudes towards death--or , more precisely , the attitudes towards how one lives in the face of impending death--that Thomas explores in this poesy--the implied attitude his speaker attributes to his direct audience , and the one he urges be adopted in its place--are similarly explored in King Le ar and dramatized in the characters of Gloucester and Lear . I also propose that the voice we hear in Do not go gentle may not be a directly lyric speaker but an obliquely pinched persona , that of Gloucester s son Edgar . Further , when interpret in the shadow cast by King Lear , the heart of Thomas s poem grows dark indeed Do not go gentle into that good night is addressed to Thomas s father David magic , known as D . J . According to biographer capital of Minnesota Ferris , D .J . was an unhappy man . a man with decline (27 born with brains and literary talent , his dream was to be a...If you ask to get a full essay, collection it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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