Explication

I chose to create a parody of Dylan Thomas's poem because it is a very well known piece of literature that lots of people ill connect to, especially since we went over it in class. i found it a little difficult to connect the poem to my theme, but it wasn't too hard once i got going. i just had to switch up some words and lines, change some rhymes but it worked itself out by the time i got to the last line.  I would talk about poetic devices and such, but that would be listing the same ones as in the real poem, other than allusions to the world of pokémon or certain alliterations that i destroyed by inserting words of my own. I hope you liked my parody, Do not go Gentle in that Pokéball, so please leave comments below!

Blasting off again! - Steven

Do not go Gently into that Pokéball

 (a parody of Do not Go Gentle into That Good Night---by Dylan Thomas)

Do not go gentle into that pokéball
You should fight and battle until the end of day
Growl, growl don't let him catch you all

Though wise pokémon know trainers are tall
Freedom is perfect chaos every day and night
Do not go gently into that pokéball

Good pokémon go by and cry at the wall
Their last free battle lost, servants for life
Growl, growl don't let him catch you all

Wild pokémon, who used to sing before they fall
Too weak they were when men came through the wet
Do not go gentle into that pokéball

Grave men, yearning slaves, some to call
Blind by flash, they are lost in their head's desert
Growl, growl don't let him catch you all

And you, my friend, there on that sad night
Hands blank as a sheet of paper, nothing at all
Do not go gentle into that pokéball
Growl, growl don't let him catch you all