This adjective titles a poem whose speaker says that “For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird” and admits to shortening her life “in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways.” The line “Life is short, though I keep this from my children” opens a poem titled for this kind of “bones” by Maggie Smith. A John Donne poem titled for this adjective asks “what thou and I / Did, till we loved” and describes a love “so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.” In “Wild Geese,” Mary Oliver declares that “you do not have to be” this adjective, which is the second-to-last word in the title of a poem that asks a father to “Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears.” That poem titled for this adjective states that “Old age should burn and rave at close of day.” For 10 points, what adjective modifies “night” in a Dylan Thomas villanelle? ■END■
ANSWER: good [accept “Do not go gentle into that good night”; accept “The Good-Morrow”; accept “Good Bones”]
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