Present tense would be your answer! :)
<span>Richie had felt a mad, exhilarating kind of energy growing in the room. . . . He thought he recognized the feeling from his childhood, when he felt it everyday and had come to take it merely as a matter of course. He supposed that, if he had ever thought about that deep-running aquifer of energy as a kid (he could not recall that he ever had), he would have simply dismissed it as a fact of life, something that would always be there, like the color of his eyes . . . .
Well, that hadn't turned out to be true. The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself—that slipped away somewhere between eighteen and twenty-four, to be replaced by something much duller . . . purpose, maybe, or goals . . . .
Source: King, Stephen. It. New York: Penguin, 1987. Print.</span>
The answer is d) 2 year college or junior college
According to the above interpretation, <u>“the dying of the light”</u> is another metaphor for death in this poem.
“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” is a villanelle in which the poet addresses his father how he ought to die. Dylan Thomas advised his father about how he needs to defy death. The poet also gives an overview of the characterization of the people who defy death and had anger towards it. He uses metaphors and imagery to explain life and death.
