Do
Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Elliot
DEL BORGO
Do
Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
by 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 lighting 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.
Touching humans the most is the
acceptance of unstoppable death. We all know that death will be our fate some
day, but how we accept that or how we deal with it is left to each individual.
Basically there are three ways to live with this daunting fact. Waiting for
death to come without ever enjoying life is what some do. Fulfillingly is how
some people choose to live. Dylan Thomas seems to support those who live life
excessively, dangerously, recklessly, and on the edge as shown in his poem gDo
Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.h
Structurally, the poem
emphasizes raging against death as he repeats this exhortation in the last line
in every other stanza. He could have chosen such words as, gDonft give
into...h but he used grage,h which lends a tone of aggressiveness or
rebelliousness. At the end of every other stanza are the words advising us not
to go gentle into death. Well, the negative of gentle would be rough or hard or
fighting and Thomas tells us to approach death in such a way.