The poems “Afterwards”, “To an Athlete Dying Young”, and “Do not go gentle into that good night” deal with the subject of death. All three of the poems have a similarity, but they are mostly different. The similarity on the poems is that the speakers want to remember someone or be remembered, after their deaths, in some special way. In the poem “Afterwards”, the speaker wonders if he will be remembered as a person who …showed first 75 words of 293 total…

…showed last 75 words of 293 total…with the subject of death, in content they were all different. In “Afterwards”, the speaker was a nature lover who wanted to be remembered as such, the young athlete in “To an Athlete…” who dies at the peak of his career and the speaker in “Do not go gentle…” that wants his father to live his life to the fullest, all want the same thing, to remember someone or be remembered in some special way.