Poetry Essay

In my essay I am going to compare the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas and "Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year" by Raymond Carver. Both stories are written by men for their fathers. One possibly just passed and the other is in the act of dying. Thomas writes of a man persuading his father to die with the dignity that all men should have, that even if he set out in this world to accomplish everything but in reality accomplished nothing, he is still a father and that is an awesome responsiblity. Carver is looking at a picture of his father where is he is trying to seem important and bold, but really is drinking a beer (and possibly very drunk at the time) holding some little perch. But again still he is a father and his son thinks he is amazing. Carver is realizing that parents are perfect, but once you have walked a mile as a parent you understand their actions better than you could ever as a child.