Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Poem Analysis

Do not go gentle into that goodnight, a poem written by Dylan Thomas, talks about how the speaker does not want his father to die and tells him to “ rage against the dying of the light”( line 3). He then goes on to say that those whose death is imminent should rage and fight, so not to succumb to death peacefully. Death is a sad thing that everyone must encounter in their lives, and everyone takes it differently.

In the first stanza of the poem, the speaker asks someone to “not go gentle into that good night” (line 1). What he means by this is that he does not want this person ( who you later find out is his father) to die. He tells him that age should go wild and burn in the sun, so that it becomes irrelevant to a person's life. The speaker then tells his father to “rage against the dying of the light”(line 3) rather than die peacefully.

The speaker then goes on to say that no one should die easily, and that they should fight it until their last breath. Wise men should not die because they have not made any giant discoveries in their lives. Good men should rage about death because they have not gotten fulfillment from their good deeds.Grave men, already near death, should not just lie down and die because even “ Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay”( line 14). The speaker connects all of these men together under one thing, no one should die without giving up a fight.

Death is a sad thing that everyone must encounter at one point in their lives, and everyone gets through it a different way. The speaker in this poem is the type to fight against it with everything hes got until he can no longer do anything. He wishes for his father to do the same and to not leave the world easily. He tries to say that no matter what kind of person you are, whether good or bad, should not die without raging as much as possible.

In his poem, Dylan Thomas’ does not want his father to succumb to death easily. He tells him