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 can be described by the cliched phrase "You can't escape death." The poem basically describes how different types of men react to death and the knowledge of their own coming death. No matter what they do or how they react, though, none manage to escape it.

In "The Force that through the Green Fuse Drive the Flower", I believe the theme to be Time. I capitalize the word because in the poem, it is "The Force". It is the main "character", the subject of the entire poem. I came to

"I am dumb to tell the crooked rose . . .."

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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.

The tone of "The Force . . ." also seems serious, but is more regretful than sad. I get the feeling of regret from the beginning of the fourth line of each stanza:

believe that the theme is Time mainly through line 6:

The next subjects I would like to focus on are fairly obvious ones, meter and rhyme scheme. "Do Not Go Gentle . . ." is written in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of "aba". That is not all, though. The poem also uses a type of chain rhyme. Not only do the first and third lines of every stanza

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