And they call it "Tom Swiftie" because... one for the MOMH

[Jim Flanagan]

This is possibly the most OT of OT Chatter.


Dylan Thomas said, metamorphically:

Do not go gentle into that good night, 
Old age should burn and rave at close of day; 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
   
Though wise men at their end know dark is right, 
Because their words had forked no lightning they 
Do not go gentle into that good night.
   
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright 
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
   
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, 
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, 
Do not go gentle into that good night.
   
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight 
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
   
And you, my father, there on the sad height, 
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. 
Do not go gentle into that good night. 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.




--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., tanwo at h... wrote:
> > --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> > 
> > > Gives a whole new meaning to "Do not go gently into that good 
> > night,"
> > > don't it?
> > > 
> > > --Amanda, going "eeuuuwww"
> > 
> > Shakespeare???? In which case I offer you -
> > 
> >      "You were conducted to a gentle bath"   (Coriolanus)
> > 
> > Double-eeuuuww!
> > 
> > Wotan  :))
> 
> "Do not go gentle" is by Dylan Thomas (Welsh).  So both of these 
> writers are familiar with the double meaning, unless it's very new 
> slang.  Sounds like the basis of a PhD dissertation to me.  Imagery 
of 
> maggots in British poetry.
> 
> Amy Z