Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Essay
Death is one of many fates one cannot avoid. Regardless of one’s status, ethnicity, or religion they all have the same fate, which is death. The only difference between those people who are facing death is Those who rage, rage against the dying light and those who go gently into the good night.This is shown in the poem Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas.
The structure and tone of the poem engages the reader to listen carefully to messages the speaker is saying. The tone of the speaker is persuasive, angry, and pleading to the reader. The structure of the poem follows an ABA pattern. It is also a villanelle form, having a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. Making the poems sound like lyrics. There is also repetition seen throughout the stanzas, “Do not go gentle into that good night,/ Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
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There is still one more to not give up so easily and that being the ‘Father’. He is mentioned in stanza 6, “And you, my father, there on the sad height,/ Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray./ Do not go gentle into that good night./ Rage, rage against the dying of the light”. In line 16 “ my father” the use of father is actually in reference to the speaker and author’s father. In reality, Dylan Thomas wrote this poem for his dying father. When mentioning “My Father”, you can see the Thomas speaking through the speaker of the poem. In this stanza, his father is on the edge of death, ‘there on the sad height’. It also uses an oxymoron: curse, bless. This means he wants his father to cry and fight, rage, against death. Just like the four men mentioned before. Just like them he wants his father to fight against is inevitable
The structure and tone of the poem engages the reader to listen carefully to messages the speaker is saying. The tone of the speaker is persuasive, angry, and pleading to the reader. The structure of the poem follows an ABA pattern. It is also a villanelle form, having a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain. Making the poems sound like lyrics. There is also repetition seen throughout the stanzas, “Do not go gentle into that good night,/ Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Those two …show more content…
There is still one more to not give up so easily and that being the ‘Father’. He is mentioned in stanza 6, “And you, my father, there on the sad height,/ Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray./ Do not go gentle into that good night./ Rage, rage against the dying of the light”. In line 16 “ my father” the use of father is actually in reference to the speaker and author’s father. In reality, Dylan Thomas wrote this poem for his dying father. When mentioning “My Father”, you can see the Thomas speaking through the speaker of the poem. In this stanza, his father is on the edge of death, ‘there on the sad height’. It also uses an oxymoron: curse, bless. This means he wants his father to cry and fight, rage, against death. Just like the four men mentioned before. Just like them he wants his father to fight against is inevitable