What do you do to "rage against the dying of the light"?

Trish said:
We studied this at college and I may be completely wrong but, I always thought that the reference about their words having forked no lightning, means that they still fight the unavoidable, (even though they are wise enough to know death is inevitable), because they know their lives had no impact on the world.
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Yes, the whole theme is fighting (raging against) letting go easily even though the speaker knows it will do no good... some of
it seems to be about regret, too... I'm planning to go read it again, too, @Trish !
 

BTW, I did not mean rage as in anger. I mean rage as in passion to do something, make something, be something, fix something.
Leave some corner of the world a better place than you found it, if possible.

Plant a tree of some kind, either physical or metaphorical.
 

What an excellent thread--------
I cannot recall ever being in a "rage".

I have been confronted by two people , raging to me about something they felt a friend of mine had done to them.:rolleyes:

I figure let them raise their blood pressure over something that does not even involve me.

One , a man I knew well, I calmed down- there was no basis for his anger, and the other one, a woman running our fire auxiliary, , was caught by our fire chief, screaming at me and threatening to go after a friend of mine. Why-I don't know.

I told the friend, our best ambulance driver, and he waited to see her at our next drill, to see why she as so angry with him, and she was very nice to him and never brought up her problem with him. He had done nothing wrong.:unsure:

People like that are often projecting onto others, something raging within themselves, that has nothing to do with their rages.

I am not easily intimidated either. Some people are so mentally lacking in any form of insight, that they yearn to find innocent victims of their rages.
 
Trish said:
We studied this at college and I may be completely wrong but, I always thought that the reference about their words having forked no lightning, means that they still fight the unavoidable, (even though they are wise enough to know death is inevitable), because they know their lives had no impact on the world.

I am glad this came up because I now want to dig that out and read it again! :)
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The beginning word "though" might point out the contradiction. Interesting discussion.
 
VintageBetter said:
BTW, I did not mean rage as in anger. I mean rage as in passion to do something, make something, be something, fix something.
Leave some corner of the world a better place than you found it, if possible.

Plant a tree of some kind, either physical or metaphorical.
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Having spent 10 years at building a local animal welfare and rescue, and mostly using my own money for it, I feel no more "rage"....
 
Trish said:
We studied this at college and I may be completely wrong but, I always thought that the reference about their words having forked no lightning, means that they still fight the unavoidable, (even though they are wise enough to know death is inevitable), because they know their lives had no impact on the world.

I am glad this came up because I now want to dig that out and read it again! :)
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Where poetry is concerned, if it isn't a limerick, I probly don't understand it.
 
Easy question! I keep exercising, reading, walking outside, keep up with my girl friend and I love to travel. In 2023 it was 2 months in Cuba and then it was Washington, DC in October.

Right now doing a lot of reading and research on a cruise to Alaska.

You want to "keep the ole' man out"; you gotta to stay positive and you gotta stay active. Don't sit around and gathering rust or you'll seize up!
 
The forecast was for rain all morning and all day. It's still raining out now.
So I decided to exercise inside this morning and was trying to get motivated to start.
I looked outside before the rain started. A guy was walking his dog, and a woman was out walking.

I recalled earlier days when I ran in all types of weather. Those days are long gone. I thought of this thread.
That's what the dying of the light is. Facing the inevitable that is coming to all of us, but raging against it to keep going.

That's what my exercise is, meager as it is these days, raging against that dying of the light.

I did my warmups, and then did my exercise.
 
I think about the proā€™s and conā€™s of hitchiking

 

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