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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night By Dylan Thomas
Poetic styles can give an independence to the writer and allow he or she to create somewhat of a dramatic effect and tie seemingly loose ends of a poem. The poem “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas poetic form is a villanelle meaning it has 19 lines which is divided in five-three lines and a 6th stanza with 4 lines. The Villanelle form in the poem creates persistent repetition of the poets message and makes it easy to follow along. At the end of each lines in the poem, metaphor of death keeps getting repeated. Through this poem, the poet is pleading to his dad to not just let death take him that easy and that he needs to struggle and fight with it. In line 2, the word “rave” associates with “rage” which is repeated a lot
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