Essay On Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Everyone will die eventually, but different people has different attitudes towards death. In the poem “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”, Dylan Thomas tells people that when we face death, we should not just give up and accept death quietly and peacefully, we should fight for more life and never give in to death. The speaker in this poem is Dylan Thomas himself, the sentence “Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray” in the quatrain tells us this because Thomas use first person “I”, so we can know that the speaker in this poem is Thomas himself. This poem is written to his dying father because the sentence “And you, my father” in the quatrain shows us this. And his message in this poem is that people should not just quietly accept death without a fight, they should try their best to live and fight for more life, they should never give up.
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He repeats “Rage, rage against the dying of the light”on line 3, line 9, line 15 and line 19, which are the third sentence of the first tercet, the third sentence of the third and fifth tercets, and the forth sentence of the quatrain. The repetitions increase the intensity and give the reader a stronger sense of the speaker’s feelings. And the form of this poem—villanelle—emphasizes what Thomas wanted to tell us, and makes the readers more likely to remember the important sentences in the poem. The 2 refrains repeat again and again in different locations of the poem can express Tomas’ feeling more effective, makes the readers feel stronger about the speaker’s emotion. We can feel stronger about Thomas’ desperation and how much he wants his father to fight for more
Everyone will die eventually, but different people has different attitudes towards death. In the poem “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”, Dylan Thomas tells people that when we face death, we should not just give up and accept death quietly and peacefully, we should fight for more life and never give in to death. The speaker in this poem is Dylan Thomas himself, the sentence “Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray” in the quatrain tells us this because Thomas use first person “I”, so we can know that the speaker in this poem is Thomas himself. This poem is written to his dying father because the sentence “And you, my father” in the quatrain shows us this. And his message in this poem is that people should not just quietly accept death without a fight, they should try their best to live and fight for more life, they should never give up.
The theme of this poem is that we should fight when …show more content…
He repeats “Rage, rage against the dying of the light”on line 3, line 9, line 15 and line 19, which are the third sentence of the first tercet, the third sentence of the third and fifth tercets, and the forth sentence of the quatrain. The repetitions increase the intensity and give the reader a stronger sense of the speaker’s feelings. And the form of this poem—villanelle—emphasizes what Thomas wanted to tell us, and makes the readers more likely to remember the important sentences in the poem. The 2 refrains repeat again and again in different locations of the poem can express Tomas’ feeling more effective, makes the readers feel stronger about the speaker’s emotion. We can feel stronger about Thomas’ desperation and how much he wants his father to fight for more