In this unit, you read two poems that have differing views about how to approach death: “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
by Dylan Thomas and “Song of a Man Who Has Come Through” by D. H. Lawrence. Read these excerpts from each poem: excerpt from “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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excerpt from “Song of a Man Who Has Come Through”
If only I am sensitive, subtle, oh, delicate, a winged gift!
If only, most lovely of all, I yield myself and am borrowed
By the fine, fine wind that takes its course through the chaos of the world
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In your opinion, which view on how to approach death is more logical or correct? Why?
I believe that the answer is D. "Self-Reliance" is an example of a short memoir. It a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge of them and based on personal observation.
In “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, when the age of Old Lady Chong, the piano teacher's mother, is being describe, the author uses two similes she smells "like a baby that done something in his pants” and has skin "like an old peach" appealing to the smell sense.
