Topic > Don't Go Easy on That Good Night, by Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas was born in Great Britain in 1914. He was a Welsh poet and writer who wrote exclusively in English. According to the Poets Organization, "His father was an English literature teacher at the local high school and often recited Shakespeare to Thomas before he could read" (1). Home education developed his writing style which led him to publish his first work in 1925. The poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" was written by Dylan Thomas in 1945 during the last illness of his father's life. Thomas addressed this poem to his father whose eyesight and general health were deteriorating. In his poetry he expresses a powerful message about escape and the passage of death. In the meantime he begs his father to fight against the darkness that is taking over him and leading him to the afterlife. In this poem in villanelle form, through the use of metaphorical language and imagery, especially parallelism, the writer provides examples of wise men, good men, wild men and grave men to his father who was dying at the time this poem was written and also gets tired of convincing his father to fight against imminent death. Thomas thinks that a man who is dying in old age should not die in silence, but struggle with death until the last second. He begins the poem with a second-person point of view and constantly reminds readers not to go gently into death and darkness, but rather to fight with them. To express death and darkness, in the first stanza, Thomas uses a metaphor in which the day represents life, the night represents the afterlife, and the end of the day represents the moment of death, "Do not go softly into that good night ,..., at the end of the day” (line 1-3). The first line of the poem is also a refrain. To make the reader notice this sentence, write...... in the center of the paper.. ....getic, warm, intimate acts. “Fierce tears” images passion in nature. Thomas hopes that his father can fight with death. He also asks him not to be indifferent and not to accept death with meekness limited; therefore we must strive to do the most and the best, without any doubt. Even when we face death, we need passion to live, whatever the outcome 'last verse: "Do not go softly into that good night, Anger, Anger, against the dying of the light" (verses 18-19). death was a constant underlying theme in this poem. Thomas once takes readers into darkness and death, meanwhile makes readers understand the meaning of life and death. Even at the end of life, everyone should try to "burn" with life, to "rage against the dying of the light”.".