(hurry ; -; )you will now work through dylan thomas’s “do not go gentle into that good night” stanza by stanza, answering questions as you go.

first stanza
1. what image in the words “burn and rave” suggest? why should someone “burn and rave at close of day? ”
2. the word rage can mean “anger,” but it can also mean “passion”—an outpouring of feeling. how might thomas have been using both meanings in the poem?

second stanza
3. though the wise men might “know” that it is time to die, the speaker says that they still fight death because “their words had forked no lightning.” what does this mean?
4. what images do you see in this stanza?

third stanza
5. these good people cry “how bright their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay.” what does this mean?
6. what imagery do you see in this stanza?

fourth stanza
7. how might these people have “sang the sun in flight” and then “grieved” it?
8. what imagery do you see in this stanza?

fifth stanza
9. what images do you see in stanza 5?

sixth stanza
10. why do all these men not go gently into death?
11. what role do light and darkness play in the poem?

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant

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Compare and contrast dorothy parker’s responses from her interview in the  paris review  with the dialogue of her main character in "agreement in black and white". write an essay that explains how the two are similar and different. use evidence from both texts to support your opinions. tho