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An analysis of Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night This poem was written by Dylan Thomas
who had been acknowledged as one of the most important Welsh poets of the 20th century. The
poem is a son s plea to his dying father. Thomas shows four different kinds of people in four
stanzas wise men, good men, wild men and grave men so as to encourage his father to fight
against death rather than to accept in silence. The tone used in the poem is passionate and
intense. Rage, rage against the dying of the light (line 3) is an attitude the old is supposed to hold.
Old age should burn and rave at close of day (line 2) is exactly the theme that the poet wants to
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Blind eyes could blaze like meteors (line 14) This is a metaphor that means grave men never
distinguish their hope and always hold a passionate attitude towards life. A disabled person still
can fight against the doom. Why healthy people give in to death? In the last stanza, the poet
points out that this poem is particularly written for his dying father. Curse, bless, me now with
your fierce tears, I pray. (line 17) In this sentence, curse , bless , fierce and tears all have the
rhyme s which makes the tone soft sounding. Thomas begs his father to die with anger, not
humility. Whatever the ways, the curse or bless, the poet can bear it so long as his father not
surrender to death. This poem is structured in a form called villanelle, which has 19 lines long,
but only uses two rhymes. In this poem, night , light , right , bright , flight , sight and sight all
end with t sound and day , they , bay , way , gay and pray all end with ei sound. The rhythm of this
poem follows as aba, aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa . Moreover, it is clear to see that first five stanzas are
triples and last stanza is a quatrain, which is also another standard of villanelle. There are two
refrains in the poem. Do not go gentle into that good night. (line 1) is repeated in line 6, line 12
and line 18. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. (line 3)is repeated in line 9, line 15 and line
19. Thomas urges his
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