Dylan Thomas, “ Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.” In life, some people are unfortunate to have to experience the death of a loved one. Losing someone you love can be unconceivable to some people, as they can’t imagine losing that person at all. In Dylan Thomas’ poem, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.”, he is going through the unconceivable in having to watch a loved die. He goes through having to watch his father go through a very slow death. But in hind’s sight, he wants his father to fight for his life and not give in.
He finds it challenging to have lost his father as the motif of “the boat” is used to emphasize the loss of his father. He feels that “no boat rides restlessly in the waters” generating an idea that you won’t be happy throughout your whole life because he has lost his happiness since the day he lost his dad. His memories of his father are remembered as “gigantic” and “being elevated”. But to him they are “only shadows and echoes” of his past. The “earliest recollection” of the father is filled with imagery such as “stubble of his cheek” and “ sound …boots galumphing along”.
In a world that God has abandoned, where the sun no longer shines through the ashes, the hope that the father and his son will survive ultimately gives the reader something to look forward to. Cormac McCarthy successfully writes one of the most classic stories of survival while using such grotesque details of a post-apocalyptic world. Throughout the story, both of the protagonists, a father and a son, remain unnamed as they continue their journey. The father “hadnt kept a calendar for years. They were moving south.
The father came back with PTSD. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder happens to people who have been under a lot of stress or after being through traumatic events in their life. The fathers being held captive inequity in an internment camp. "He never said a word to us about the years he's been away... He never talked about politics or how he had lost all teeth.
The father, authority figure only speaks once in the poem; “End what you have begun” This changes the child’s understanding of the responsibilities associated with power and the consequences of the misuse of this power and it is also realised that once your innocence is lost there’s no turning back. The second part of the poem “Nightfall” continues the story of the child forty years from ’Barn Owl– and is written in the form of an ode. The poem represents death closing in on the father, and the limitations of time on
Also, he is ashamed of allowing his family to see him the way he is. Besides the couple of nurses that take care of him, he has no one and nothing to live for. Joe Bunham, now injured with no limbs, suffered through the pain that no 20 year old should be going through. The war altered his life to a point where one questions the point of living. What happened to him during the war mentally changed his view on what his future should really be.
Asef Rahman English 10H 10/15/2012 Ethan Frome: a lonely man indeed The novel, Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton, is a story about Ethan, a man torn between the moral obligations to his wife, Zeena, and his need for a person to love. The author’s use of foreshadowing, metaphors, imagery and motifs vividly convey the overall message that man cannot simply live alone and needs somebody in his life. He has Zeena but he does not converse with her at all. The fact that Starkfield was a depressing place to live did not help his life either. Although Ethan’s overall nature was damaged by the smash up, his time spent in Starkfield had caused his overall melancholy demeanor and left him feeling isolated.
The father has already been defined as a working class man as his hands are “cracked... from labor in the weekday” (line 3) and now on this early Sunday morning he awakes to “[drive] out the cold” (line 11). His son does not show any gratitude toward his father and in fact “[speaks] indifferently to him” (line 10). It is unfortunate too since the last two lines make it seem as though the father has passed away and the son never took the opportunity to thank him for all he had done. Again, in both poems the sons are appreciative of their fathers and yet show it
Superficially, all seems well because his family lives a comfortable existence. Emotionally, however, his family has missed his emotional support for years. His wife, Helen, gave up “trying to compete with his work years ago.” All of his children grew up in a so-called normal family with a father and mother. At his funeral, though, they do not have enough memories about him to say a proper eulogy. Phil himself was “overweight” and unhealthy, obsessed with work and negligent with his personal life.
The novel is about a man who influenced the actions of others yet “did not know when he had any responsibility for them and when he did not” (656). There was a time when Jack Burden believed that there was nothing but the Great Twitch, for “it gave him a sort of satisfaction, because it meant that he could not be called guilty of anything, not even of having squandered happiness or of having killed his father, or of having delivered his two friends into each other’s hands and death” (657). But after many years, he discovered that he did not believe in the Great Twitch anymore. Jack Burden “had seen too many people live and die.” He had seen the Scholarly Attorney, Lucy Stark, Sugar-Boy, Sadie Burke and Anne Stanton live “and the way of their living had nothing to do with the Great Twitch” (657). Jack Burden had also seen his friend Adam Stanton Die.