What a fitting description! However, I am not of the same opinion.
You must not forget that the Requiem was written in memory of those fallen during the revolution of july 1830 (during which Berlioz himself was locked in the conservatory building if I am not mistaken, writing his fourth cantata in an attempt to finally be awarded the Prix de Rome).
For more background information, you can always read our own Matthew B. Teppers excellent introduction to his MA thesis, available at
http://home.earthlink.net/~oy/cover.htm (and discover what the B. stands for).
Finally, I would like to add a poem by Dylan Thomas:
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night (Dylan Thomas)
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
