Analysis Of Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

From the moment you came to this world, a person was always taking care of you, giving you advices, always helping you, always loving you, your father, the most loved person to your heart. The moment you grow up and face life, the moment where your father says his goodbyes and leaves you alone to experience life, is one of the worst moments a human could possibly face. Dylan Thomas had expressed his mood and feeling of sadness, as Thomas doesn’t want his father to sleep on his deathbed. Thomas had included many messages that touched the heart. “Do not go gentle into that good night,” (line 1), Thomas opens with suggesting the intensity and power of his family bonds. The speaker believes that his bonds with his father cannot be easily broken down; however, when the father got ill and weak, he was then breaking the bond. Thomas had also clarified that wise and knowledge people aren’t supposed to be calm,
“Range, range against the dying of the light” (lines 3,9,15,19) the repetition of this line conforms that Thomas wants his father to fight against death, to fight the light of death. As he sits next to his dying father whom he loves, his mood is a mixture of despair, if his father should actually die now, and anger, of asking how can this be happening to my father?
Throughout the whole poem Thomas was communicating through metaphors, rhythms, rhymes, and symbolizing. “Wise men”, “Good men”, and “wise men” are the characteristics of Thomas’s father, as this poem to for him. The speaker represented day and night as life and death, as the speaker imagines that his father is at the moment of sunset (death). Thomas has an idea that it is hard to die if a person didn’t write his/ her verse in life. “Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright,” (line 7) this indicates that the speaker reflects on the idea that what might have been troubles men on their