Do Not Go Gently into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas
Legal Alien by Pat Mora
W. H. Auden explained poetry as “ a language which tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that cannot be said.” “The Times They are a Changin'” by Bob Dylan, “Do Not Go Gently into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas and “Legal Alien” by Pat Mora are all speaking of changing worlds, however the emotional context is far different. In “The Times They are a Changin'” Bob Dylan is telling parents to get out of the way in world where “Your old road is rapidly agin’.” . Conversely, Dylan Thomas is begging his father not ...
