Jumat, 13 Mei 2011

Summary Silvina Nugrahwati

SUMMARY
• Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) was born in Swansea, Wales. At 1951, he published a poem titled “Do not Go Gentle into That Goodnight”.
• Theme is the central idea or ideas explored by a literary work.
• Theme in “Do not Go Gentle into That Goodnight” is about spirit to against the death especially to his father not to give up from the death fate.
• A second person point of view is seldom used, which makes sense if you think about it. In second person, the writer speaks directly to the reader.
• Stanzas 1 and 6 (Do not Go Gentle into That Goodnight) are in second-person point of view.
• The other stanzas are in third-person point of view or omniscient point of view.
• Omniscient narration provides an insight to the thoughts, feelings, and impressions of all the characters and events.
• Do not go Gentle into that Goodnight is a villanelle.
• A villanelle has only two rhyme sounds. The first and third lines of the first stanza rhyme refrains that alternate as the third line in each successive stanza and form a couplet at the close. A villanelle is nineteen lines long, consisting of five tercets and one concluding quatrain.
• A stanza consists of a grouping of lines, set off by space that usually has a set pattern of meter and rhyme.
• Do not go Gentle into that Goodnight has six stanzas.
• A refrain (from Vulgar Latin refringere, "to repeat", and later from Old French refraindre) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or inverse.
• A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words and is most often used in poetry and songs.
• End Rhyme Do not go Gentle into that Goodnight : a. b. a. in the first to the fifth stanzas and a. b. a. b in last or sixth stanza.
• In poetry, metre (or meter in American use of the English Language) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.
• Meter Do not go Gentle into that Goodnight : except the second line of the fifth stanza, this poem use iambic tetrameter; each line in the poem has ten syllables (five feet).
• Figurative language – language using figures of speech – is language that cannot be taken literally (or should not be taken literally only).
• Symbol is something that means more than what it is.
• Metaphor and simile are both used as a means of comparing things that are essentially unlike.
• Personification is an ontological metaphor in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person.
• Analyzing literally works being so important.

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