Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night By Dylan Thomas
Reading through Dylan Thomas’s poem, “Do not go gentle into that good
Night ” One major them in this poem talks about death and fighting it with all your will. Throughout the work, he expresses his need for all men to not go gentle into the good night. It seems that Thomas had a certain fear of death, and darkness, no matter the age of the individual. Old age should rave and burn at the close of day, which shows his desire that death should not come easy but one should fight as long as they can to avoid succumbing to death. Through out the poem he writes dramatically, as in his style, about death and the will to live, for mankind.
He speaks of the different men who encounter death saying wise men in the end know death is right. However, since their words forked no lightening and because they lived peaceful lives they will also not go gentle in the night. “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,” Here it seems is a metaphor for the sun going down, as in life passing and those men who lived radical lives are surprised when death creeps up on them. They also do not wish to go, with out raving and grieving, into the grave. …show more content…
This is where his work takes a mournful turn, for me, and you can really feel his pain and struggle, as the, sole, author penning this. He addresses him, with what felt like rage, and ultimate sorrow to me, in the end of his work saying, “and you, my father, there on that sad height, curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.” which seems to say that he is close to death and will be passing soon. The blindness he speaks of must be his father’s, despite knowing the painful health he suffers from, that he still wishes for him to live. Dylan himself passed away a year later after writing this poem for his
Night ” One major them in this poem talks about death and fighting it with all your will. Throughout the work, he expresses his need for all men to not go gentle into the good night. It seems that Thomas had a certain fear of death, and darkness, no matter the age of the individual. Old age should rave and burn at the close of day, which shows his desire that death should not come easy but one should fight as long as they can to avoid succumbing to death. Through out the poem he writes dramatically, as in his style, about death and the will to live, for mankind.
He speaks of the different men who encounter death saying wise men in the end know death is right. However, since their words forked no lightening and because they lived peaceful lives they will also not go gentle in the night. “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,” Here it seems is a metaphor for the sun going down, as in life passing and those men who lived radical lives are surprised when death creeps up on them. They also do not wish to go, with out raving and grieving, into the grave. …show more content…
This is where his work takes a mournful turn, for me, and you can really feel his pain and struggle, as the, sole, author penning this. He addresses him, with what felt like rage, and ultimate sorrow to me, in the end of his work saying, “and you, my father, there on that sad height, curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.” which seems to say that he is close to death and will be passing soon. The blindness he speaks of must be his father’s, despite knowing the painful health he suffers from, that he still wishes for him to live. Dylan himself passed away a year later after writing this poem for his