Since the beginning of the world, every human being has questioned their place in the world and what they can accomplish. “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas and “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” by Thomas Gray are two poems that convey the same message. Both poems convey the importance of meaning and the transience of life; however, the methods the authors use to convey this are distinctive. The poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” describes how one must fight death to the end and live fully as long as one is alive. In the first stanza, we can see that death is something that even old people should not take lightly. “Old age should burn and delirious at the end of the day; Rage, rage against Gray explains how, after a man dies, his memory dies with him. “For them the blazing hearth will burn no more, / Or the busy housewife will attend to her evening cares; / No child runs to lisp his father's return, / Nor rises to his knees to share the envied kiss” (Gray 21-24). Gray is trying to say that these poor men in the cemetery are not going to enjoy the simple pleasures they had when they were alive and that their families have moved on and forgotten them over the years. No one expresses the importance that a person had or still has in their life after death and Gray expresses this as a rhetorical question. “For whom to stupefy oblivion like prey, / This anxious and pleasant being has always resigned himself, / Has left the warm enclosure of the joyful day, / Nor cast a nostalgic glance behind him (Gray 85-88) . This means that no one will look back or spend their time remembering and keeping alive the memory of those who rest in the cemetery today. “They are largely forgotten,” the speaker asserts, “but they shouldn’t be – for everyone deserves to have someone remember and cry” (Elegy Written in a Country