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Writers often use poetry to create a challenging and vivid sense of choices we face
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Writers often use poetry to create a challenging and vivid sense of choices we face "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning and "Do not go gentle into that Good Night" by Dylan Thomas are poems where decisions and choices are presented. The language in the poems is evocative of past experiences and emotional as well as physical consequences of a choice. Browning applies an indirect allusion to his wife's death and provides personal explanation for his decision to kill her, whereas Thomas describes the judgements we have to make when approaching aging. Through an imperative main motif: " do not go gentle into that good night" Thomas encourages the reader not to accept death passively Although the poets concentrate on different sides of the same issue, which is death, feelings as well as the consequences of decisions are presented as equally painful and long lasting. Browning and Thomas use a variety...
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