Dylan Thomas, a famous 20th-century Welsh poet, once said that poetry is "the rhythmic, inescapably narrative movement from overdressed blindness to naked vision" and that “must drag you further into the clear nakedness of the light” (“Dylan Marlais Thomas” 189). Through his poetry, Thomas often sought to reveal aspects of life that are often overlooked to reveal important truths about them. Like many authors, the his experiences influenced his writing and revealed many important themes such as the “celebration of the divine purpose he saw in all human and natural processes” (“Dylan Marlais Thomas” 189). victims of the Second World War, Thomas' poem describes a society devastated by war, which helps deal with his themes with death: the inevitability of death and the acceptance of death as part of the cycle of nature. In Thomas's poem “Do Not Go Softly into That Good Night,” a child urges his dying father to “rage, rage against the dying of the light” (3). This poem serves as a reflection of Thomas' feelings towards his father's death from cancer. This poem reflects Thomas's “fury against and joy in both the limitations and possibilities of all human forms” as well as a “vivid declaration of love and fear” (Persona 2). Although many people wish for their relatives to die in peace, this son wishes for his father to fight the evil of death and fight towards the light, showing the paradoxical nature of the poem. For example, the speaker says “darkness is right” (4), “sight blinds” (13), and “curse me, bless me now” (17). All these phrases contribute to the paradoxical nature of the poem and reveal the general feeling that, despite the death... middle of paper... mourning the death, in a fire, of a child in London," and “Ceremony After A Fire Raid,” Dylan Thomas sought to describe the realities he faced, such as death, and shed light on the acceptance of death as part of the cycle of nature. His poems capture “the imagination, the spirit [and] understanding the people who endured the Depression and World War II” and embody a “dauntless… search for reality and limited hope in a world devoid of its traditional theological certainties” (Knepper 3838). fear death and the consequences it brings, we must accept it as part of the cycle of nature and realize that we can try to fight death, but ultimately death is inevitable. Humanity must remember that “many human beings will die ways and places" but, in the end, "their bodies will return to the elements and will be dispersed" (Knepper 3839).