![]() ![]() Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Old age should burn and rave at close of day ![]() I particularly liked this line, “By birth more noble than those creatures all/Yet seems by nature and by custom curs’d.”Īnd that made me think about how humans can also be resilient, and “rage, rage against the dying of the light,” which then made me think about Dylan Thomas’ poem Do not go gentle into that good night: I was reading Tirza’s lovely blog, Tirza Reads, where she blogs about books and poems, and she did a post about a beautiful Anne Bradstreet’s poem, Contemplations, where Bradstreet juxtaposes the seeming frailty of humans with the resilience and rebirth quality of nature (and then later flips this in the poem to note how humans can actually become immortal, in a way). If you go to the Wikipedia page for this poem, there’s a whole section dedicated to popular usage in media. Heck, I just did a test and asked a friend who probably hasn’t read any poetry since he had to for high school, and he’s heard it. And I’m not unearthing a hidden gem of a poem if you’ve never read a poem in your life, I can almost guarantee you’ve at least heard the two famous lines from this poem. Unless the search function isn’t working properly on my blog, I’ve somehow never written about one of my all-time favorite poems. ![]() He gives a stirring speech using the famous line from this poem. Bill Pullman playing President Thomas Whitmore in the mega blockbuster from 1996 Independence Day. ![]()
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