Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

The Explication of Do not go gentle into that good Night Family, a tremendous importance to individuals across the world. Family, sometimes the only thing that individuals know and love and have brought people together for generations. Family for me has always been the MOST valuable thing, in the end, who else is going to always be by my side? No one other than family. Since my morals are so family based, a poem that intrigued me mainly due to the popularity of it and my close relationship with my father is, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas was a 20th century poet whom unlike most poets of his time, chose to stay away from writing about favored topics such as social issues. Instead, he chose to write poetry that reflected the Romantic era and heart-felt relationships. Written in 1951 during Thomas’s father’s final days due to an illness, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” illuminates the importance of fighting until the end and resisting “going into the light” through his use of symbolism, form, figures of
The mention of night in line 1 and the mention of the dying of the light in line 19 represent death. These lines are repeated throughout all six stanzas of the poem, which emphasizes how strongly the narrator feels about not giving up. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night is in the form of a villanelle, and has an iambic pentameter meter. In other words, the poem contains 19 lines that are divided into five three-lined stanzas and ends with a sixth stanza with four lines. Also, each line has ten syllables and every other syllable is stressed. His choice to make the poem in the form of a villanelle while utilizing iambic pentameter gives the poem a more urgent appearance, in turn, reflecting the seriousness of