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... some images related with death like “twilight,” “sunset,” “dark night,” and “deathbed.” The speaker knows that he is going to die. M: This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave ere long. In this sentence, the speaker says that love me because I will leave soon (I will die soon.) “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas This speaker talks about his father and implies death. He says his father as “wise men,” “good men,” “wild men,” and “grave men.” He describes how old his father is using “close of day,” “the dying of the light,” “blind eyes,” and “near death.” In this poem, Thomas uses rhythm which he puts two sentences, “rage, rage, against the dying of the light,” and “Do not go gentle into that good night.” one after the other M: Rage, rage against the dying of the light. This sentence describes the sadness of the speaker about his father who will die soon. “Death, be not proud” by John Donne In this poem, the speaker addresses death like a person. He speaks to death like “poor death,” “canst thou kill me.” He says death dwells in “poison,” “war and sickness.” He uses death images like “desperate men,” and “poppy.” M: One short sleep passed, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die. This sentence describes that we will be in eternally after we pass death. “When I have fears that I may cease to be” by John Keats This poem is about the fears of the speaker. The fears are death, whether he can finish writing all he wants and whether ...