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With its tight structure, poetry laughingstock accommodate great passion. Do you agree with this statement? You should base your practise on a close examination of two or third verses covering at least two groups.With its tight structure, poetry can accommodate great passion.Do you agree with this statement? You should base your answer on aclose examination of two or three poems covering at least two groups.Although it could be argued that poetry can accommodate great passionI disagree with this statement. The two poems I engage chosen toexamine, Marged by Gillian Clarke and Do Not Go Gentle into ThatGood Night by Dylan Thomas, show different perceptions that I believedisprove the statement. The start, Marged, is lacking in emotionand the second, Do Not Go Gentle, does to a greater extent than accommodate thepassion, it emphasises and releases the feelings felt by the poet. Marged by Gillian Clarke is a Shakespearean praise, with threequatrains and a couplet at the end, howe ver the poet has altered theform to change the style of the poem. For example the lines do nothave ten syllables as a formula sonnet but vary in length. Also thereis only a half-rhyme scheme with words such as bed and died in thefirst quatrain on alternate lines. It could be argued that the tightstructure of the sonnet restrains the passion felt beca engagement of thesyllables but as Gillian Clarke has ignored this rule and hasdifferent numbers of syllables this sonnet does not constrainpassion. This argument would apply more if Clarke had written apassionate poem but as it is the poem is lacking in emotion of anykind. Marged is about Clarke thinking of the previous owner of thehouse she lives in. The words do not emote a sad mood Clarke isremembering the defunct old lady but is herself distanced from the deathand therefore does not feel sad. The use of the preposition sheshows the reader that the feelings are distanced use of you wouldhave made the poem more direct and emotional. In contrast to this, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by DylanThomas is a very emotional poem in the traditional form of avillanelle. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night is addressed tothe poets father and is plea that the man doesnt die quietly. Theuse of you makes the poem very personal and it is clear from thestart of the poem that the poet feels very strongly about the issue. In the title and first line the emphasis is on the words Not and