Poetry has no Relavance to the youth of today
Although the poems, "Do not go gentle into that good night" Dylan Thomas, "But you didn't" Merrill Glass, "The soldier" Rupert Brooke, "Warning" Jenny Joseph, "The executioner" Shane Collins, " A prayer for the twenty first century" John Marsden and "The road not taken" Robert Frost have different styles, they all have one common theme which is life. Throughout history poets have written about issues, which have affected their life; they have recorded their surroundings and have turned them into words, which may have great significance to them. In all of these poems I found that it had some relevance to my life or what I believe that life could be like and therefore, I believe that poetry does infact have relevance to our youth today."Do not go gentle into the good night" By Dylan Thomas has the common theme of death. "Old age should burn and rave at close of day"- this is where the poet is saying how life should be lived to the fullest. The son begs the father to fight his illness, rather than face death: "Do not go gentle into that good night." Examples are given of how the "wise men", "good men," "wild men," and "grave men" "rage against the dying of the light," and begs for his father to do the same. There are many cases o
In the poem "But you didn't" By Merrill Glass, she talks about a loved one whom she didn't get to the chance to say everything to. This also has the common theme of death as well as war, as her loved died in war: "There are so many things I wanted to tell you when you returned from Vietnam...But you didn't." The tone has the combination of being lightly sombre and serious. She took her partner for granted and should have done many more things to return the love that he had for her. It was too late and she never got the chance to. I think that a lot of young people today, take many things for granted and don't realise what they have until its gone, and maybe they don't get the chance to say what they want to say until it disappears. This poem connects very much to the youth of today, including myself, as we all have to make choices about life. There are choices that are sometimes too hard for us too make, yet some can seem so simple. The choices we decide are stuck with us, "there is no turning back on life". Similarly, in the poem "The soldier" by Rupert Brooke, the poem is linked by the theme of war and uses a serious tone to let the audience feel what the poet is saying. The character in the poem loves his country very dearly, and an this example shows how he believes his country is the country of gods "And think. This heart, all evil shed away". Death is disguised with sound effects and non specific/abstract language: "Her sights and sound; dreams happy as her day; And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness." This also discusses what death doesn't involve, and that's everything that happens in the lead up to death- the thoughts of the painful reality. This I
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