How do you want to die? “Do Not Go Gentle Into The Night” and “When You Are Old” are both beautiful poems about death. Even though they are both about death they are different because they tell us different ways to deal with death. Whether to fight against against death because someone doesn't want to see you go or to remember your life before death, remembering everyone you loved and how beautiful it was. These poems are the same but they are also very different.

“Do Not Go Gentle Into The Night” is a son talking to his father while his father is on his death bed. He tells him to rage rage against the dying of the light, he is telling him to fight fight against death. He explains to his father how different men decide to die. Good men die thinking about how their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay. Wild men will grieve their death before they die and grave men will see a blinding sight. He goes on to beg his father to fight against death, he tells him that he prays that he will fight against death. He doesn't want his father to die so he is begging him to fight against death. This poem is all about fighting against death. …show more content…
It says to remember the soft look your eyes once had and of their shadows. He goes on to tell us to remember our loved moments, our happy moments and sad ones. The moments that defined us. He tells us to remember our beauty and to love it whether its true or false. They tell us to remember that someone loved our soul because at this moment even if you had doubt someone did love you. He tells us to love our sorrows because those are the things that shaped us. He tells us to remember all the important things in life before we pass