Both “Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas and “Autobiography in Late Middle Age” by Zulfikar Ghose discuss getting older. The difference is Dylan Thomas is writing the poem to his dying father while Zulfikar Ghose writes to anonymous young people. The tone of Thomas’s work is much darker than the tone of Ghose’s work. Thomas treats growing older and death as a tragedy while Ghose celebrates life. Ghose’s work has a comedic tone. The message of both poems is the same: Fight against old age and death.
Thomas seems to be angry at ...
