This passage means that although every man is going to die, love will never die. ... The third stanza is saying that whatever happens to the world, death will never rule. ... The turning point in the poem comes when the child realizes his youth will not last forever: "And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows / In all his tuneful turnings so few and such morning songs" (42-43). ... In the last stanza Thomas is talking directly to his dying father. Thomas" advice for his father is to "Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray / Do not go gentle into that good ni...

• Word Count: 1651
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: High School

William Wordsworth's father was a legal representative to James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, an English politician and landowner. His father encouraged young William in his reading where as his mother taught him how to read. ... "Great God I rather be a Pagan suckled in in a creed outworn: So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would makes me less forlorn: have sight of Proteus rising from the sea: Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. ... " "I wandered lonely as a cloud The floats of high o'er vales of hills, A host, a golden daffodils: B...

• Word Count: 2404
• Approx Pages: 10