Death is an aspect of life that everyone knows sooner or later. From personal experience I am more familiar with death than I could ever wish for. Poetry is something that is very difficult for me to follow, but when it deals with concepts that are familiar to me, then I can associate with the soul of the writer. Two poems that deal with the concept of death that I really enjoyed reading and that I will compare with each other are "Death Be Not Proud" by Dylan Thomas and "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas. First, in "Death Is Not Proud," Donne tells Death that he is nothing special. That Death is a low being who faces the pitiful aspects of life: war, disease, and murder. Donne says that Death is not nothing but an aspect of life, just a momentary event, “after a brief sleep, we wake up eternally.” Donne goes on to explain that we will all pass through this door on our way to another existence comparison, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Thomas is a battle cry against death. To fight it until the last breath of life has passed. That giving up life is the course of a coward. To his father, who is dying from a long illness, Dylan says, to demonstrate his love, that it is okay to cry even though he has never seen his father show the weakness of crying, as long as he continues to fight against the impending end. In both poems, the writers are against Death ; however Donne writes of Death as a weak entity that has no real power, because after death we will never have to face the worry of Death. Thomas, however, writes as if he does not believe in any kind of afterlife. An example of this is the repeated cry "Anger, anger against the dying of the light". These are two very different beliefs about an inescapable fact of life. Death is something I have faced and will eventually succumb to.;