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destruction in Do not go slake into that good night and wipeout Be non olympian The poems Do not go attractive into that good night and Death Be Not purple both deal with the subject of demolition. These poems be to have contradictory mess eons about death, yet at the same fourth dimension have similar attitudes toward it. Death Be Not Proud dialog about how death really has no power over people, spell Do not go gentle into that good night says that it is discover of human nature to fight against death. Both Do not go gentle into that good night and Death Be Not Proud see death as an opp hotshotnt however, one sees it as an obstructer that is already defeated while the early(a) sees it as an enemy that must(prenominal) be defeated. In Death Be Not Proud Donne says those whom constant of gravitation thinkst gee dost overthrow / Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou cancel out me(lines 3-4). This passage shows Donnes belief that people will always overcome deat h. In doubting Thomas poem, he writes Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright / Their debile deeds might have danced in the green bay, / Rage, rage against the dying of the light (7-9). Even the good men are in the peculiarity defeated by death according to Thomas. The tone of both of these poems is one of resentment towards death, although in dissimilar ways. In Death Be Not Proud Donne hates death because it thinks it has power over humans and in his scene just the opposite is true. Donne says that death is a slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men. (9). He thinks death has no reason to be proud because he relies on these things for its power, so really people have power over death. Thomas feels almost the opposite, though. He sees death as having power over people, and is verbalize that people do not ... ...is father do the same. Although Death Be Not Proud is seemingly directed at the personification of death, it seems same it could also be directed at the p eople who treat death like it is Mighty and dreadful (2). He wants to get this message across to those that fear and respect death that death is controlled by people, not the other way around. These two poems can each be summed up by one line from each. In Do not go gentle into that good night the main point of the poem is Old age should burn and rave at the close of day (2), and in Death Be Not Proud, death shall be no more Death, thou shalt die (14). When one looks at these two lines, the essence of these two poets contrast on death is typified. Thomas believes one should not go gentle into that good night, while Donne believes death is the Rest of their bones, and souls delivery (8).