Saturday 2 August 2008

Rage, rage against the dying of the light

Han, among others, linked to Wordle a while back and invited others to try it out. The wordle created from my blog posts wasn't too interesting, so I forgot about it at that time. Then, last night, trying to get sleep in the midst of a 6-7 hour power cut in Koramangala, I got to thinking about Dylan Thomas' 'Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night', and wondered what it would look like as a wordle. Here it is:


For a bigger image, click here. The original poem by Thomas goes like this:

'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night'

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.

-- Dylan Thomas

For commentary, see the minstrels page, or good ol' Wikipedia.
So what poems do you think would look good as a wordle?

3 comments:

  1. Heard you've bought a car. Congratulations!

    Now how about a nice roadtrip post?

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  2. Yup. Have had a car now for a week, and I've already put a scratch on it. Road-tripping will happen only once I get the first 1,000 km out of the way, but I might post on the whole car-owning experience in a while.

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  3. JC- I never knew you wrote a blog. Nice nice. Where the post on the car?

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