Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night By Dylan Thomas

The cacophonous diction Dylan Thomas’s poem “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” presents a hopeless and miserable tone towards the death of his father. The words such as “rage”, “forked”, and “dying” suggest that he is depressed that his father is passing away and wants him to “rage against the dying of the light” (19). He continues to talk about death, and how many people have “forked no lightning” with their words, and believes they don’t go peacefully (5). He wants his father and others to keep fighting. These words he uses to explain his feelings are more cacophonous, like “rage”, because many people feel this way when experiencing the death of a close one, and it gets the mood of the poem to show that he is miserable. In contrast,