Sonnet and Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night Essay -- John Donne D

praise and Do Not Go Gentle into that honorable Nighthow how the writer uses the habitus of poetry to protest against a situation or an attitude and reveal how successful you think he or she is. Sonnet & Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.Sonnet by John Donne and Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night byDylan Thomas are cardinal poems near death that seem to convey very various messages. These poems are obviously written by two workforce withtwo very different perceptions of death. Both poems are protest poemsand challenge approximations that would have been instilled in the writers froman early age. Donne ,who was a priest, would have been brought up in asociety where death was feared and at a time when there was muchreligious debate about where the soul goes after death but in hispoem he writes that death has no reason to be proud because it isnot so mighty and dreadful as people fear. This is an caprice thatcontrasts greatly with Thomas poem. Thomas was brought up in a s trictreligious environment and he would have been taught the ideas that arepresent in Donnes poem, that death is just the souls lurch andwould be like going to sleep , that death is not the end but simply away on towards heaven . However, Thomas poem contradicts this ideasaying that death is something that everyone should burn and raveagainst, this poem shows a very angry and resentful conception ofdeath. The idea behind both poems is that the authors are protestingagainst death, about how death is seen and how death is treated bypeople, as well as protesting against how they have been taught totreat death which makes these poems very powerful.Sonnet is written in the form of a sonnet which is ironic as this form... ...assionate styleof writing. This poem also uses imagery but not in the same way asSonnet, its images are not really for the reader to relate to, theyare fantastic, they do not really seem real but that is the point,death to Thomas is something unsung and something t o dread. Thomaspoem seems much more messy than Sonnet, it is contradictory and it isnot easy for the reader to understand, they must study it in moredepth to get an idea of what it is really about,this however only makes the poem more interesting and realisticbecause it seems to be straight from Thomas mind , a jumble ofthoughts that seems just to have spilled onto the page. These twopoems are forms of protest and both authors have shown that poetry isan excellent way to speak out because these poems are persuasive andconvincing arguments for both their very different views.