Tension in Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas’s poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night", is an
urgent plea from Thomas to his dying father, and all men not to give in
to death. Thomas uses himself as the speaker to the make the poem more
personal. The message of the poem is very inspirational. Throughout
the poem, Thomas uses different imagery and language to illustrate the
tension between action and inaction.
The first stanza helps summarizes the meaning of the poem, urging old
men to fight death. In the first stanza of the poem Thomas uses
assonance, ”Old age should burn and rave at close of day; / Rage, rage
against the dying of the light.” (2-3) The use of age in the second
line, and rage twice in the third depict assonance. Here Thomas is
trying to disprove the notion that old age is a time to rest, and a time
to look back with wishful regrets on one’s experiences.
The middle four stanzas are examples of various types of men, their
trials of life and the whisper of death upon them. In ...
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