Comparison of Dylan Thomas’s Poetry

While reading the poems “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” and “The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower”, I noticed some similarities and many differences. I will attempt to bring some of these under higher scrutiny, and try to explain them as best I can. The first subject I would like to look at is theme. In “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”, I believe that the theme …

…straggling flowers and sympathize with them. He regrets that he cannot say that he is caught in the same process of aging as they are, only at a different stage. Any way you look at it, different poems and other writings always have similarities and differences. I hope that I have a good enough understanding of the two poems I discussed to be able to talk about them and not sound totally foolish. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**