i understand it. saying dying from would be an obvious statement and you'd use it if you were talking about something obvious, but to make it seem more of a suble meaning etc he uses of instead of from. you associate the two subtlties. of is simply a more suble word than from.
Setanta wrote:The dying of the light is in fact a quotation from Dylan Thomas' poem, Do not go gentle into that good night. In that context, the dying of the light means the death of a person.
It was my knowing this poem that attracted my attention to this very thread - I thought it was going to go into some deep analysis into the Thomas poem. a very good poem, strong full of emotion. I believe he wrote it when his father was dying.
