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aware of how living things must cease to live, have to fix? Dylan Thomas appears to be telling us that wise men fear that they have not given their wisdom to others appropriately. It seems that wise men worry that all the wisdom they have accumulated over the many years of their existence was of no matter. Thomas has an eloquent way of phrasing things, �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� (Thomas ll. 1-6). To reiterate my point Thomas used the term of forked lightning this represents the wise men's words. Lightning has been associated with God like activities since forever. For instance, in Greek mythos there were many Gods. The king of the Gods was named Zeus. When Zeus wanted to get the attention of someone or wanted to prove his authority he would use lightning. So when the wise men had forked no lightning it meant that they cold not get the attention of anyone. The second person ...

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character Qui-Gon Jinn has a dialogue with another character in the movie, Obi-Wan Kenobi. Qui-Gon says, �Keep your concentration here and now where it belongs.� Obi-Won ponders by saying, �But Master Yoda said I should be mindful of the future.� Qui-Gon ends the conversation by saying, �But not at the expense of the moment� (Lucas). Thomas was clever in describing time when he wrote about the wild man. Time seems to be against him more than any other is, because he never took time to stop and feel the wind blow. Thomas furthermore loosely associates the wild man with the story of Icarus. Icarus was a Greek character from Greek mythology. He and his father, the inventor HYPERLINK ...

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