“Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas and “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick, are two poems about basically not letting your life get away from you. However “Do not go into that Gentle Night” is a bit of a better message, in a since it tells you to be a good person and do something important before you die. “Sonnet 130” on the other hand is a terrible message telling girls to go have sex before they get ugly. 
The poem’s messages are very different. “Do not go Gentle into that good night” is about doing something with your life before you grow old and die. It talks about how men who didn’t do anything are sad and regret it. “Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay” is a phrase that shows this. It means that their little deeds and little things they did might have been good then, but now they’re frail and mean nothing. “Sonnet 130” is not as good of a message. It’s written to girls and tells them to go out, and have fun and stuff, because soon they will be ugly and undesirable. “Then be not coy, but use your time, and while ye may, go marry: for having lost but once your prime you may for ever tarry,” Is an example of the message. It means don’t be shy because you won’t be in your prime forever. 
The poems, however, are similar in certain ways. They’re both about seizing the moment before it gets away. “Rage, rage against the dying of the light,” from “Do not go gentle into that good night” and “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old time is still a-flying,” from “To the Virgins to make much of Time” are both lines that are telling you to not let your life get away.
In conclusion “Don’t go gentle into that good night” and “To the Virgins make much of time” are very similar poems, and also very different. It really just depends on how you look at it. 

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