Go Gentle Into That Good Night

In the poem , Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas, is a poem about a boy speaking to his dying father. The attitude of this poem plays a great deal of how it can be interpreted. Attitude and tone can be used as a way to show the reader a message. In this poem his tone is sorrowful and desperate, as he begs his dying father to stay with him. The tone of how the speaker talks to their father tugs at the heartstrings of readers and forces them to continue reading on. The boy is trying to get his father to keep fighting and trying to live. Tone decorates the message, do not give up without a fight.

In this heartbreaking poem, a boy is begging for his father not to choose death; using a specific attitude. For example, when the boy begs his father complete the quote integration, “Though wise men at their end know the dark is right…. Do not go gentle into that good night.” (Thomas, 1)The author writes this stanza to have a remorseful and sorrowful tone, showing that the boy knows that his father cannot stay but will try nonetheless to keep him alive. The boy struggles to face the horrifying truth that the man that raised him is dying and he can not do anything to stop it. His attitude makes it easy to identify that he is still in
Tone draws out and deciphers a theme using an attitude, whether that be happy, morose, furious or more. For this poem specifically, the tone colors the message of a boy who doesn’t want his father to die without at least trying to fight death. Tone makes it easy to understand what the author or characters in the poem are feeling; for this poem, the boy is so angry that his father won’t fight, but also so morose and desperate that he can not do anything to help his father live. All in all, the tone painted the message of a boy begging his father to not give up without a