Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas

Do non Go Gentle into That Good darkness by Dylan doubting Thomas BY Lolo-H rime Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that goodly night, Old age should burn and rave at close of twenty- cardinal hours Rage, rage against the expiry of the light. Though wise men at their break k straightway dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, blatant how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, besides late, they grieved it on its way,Grave men, dependable death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyeball could blaze like meteors and be gay, And you, my father, there on that sad height, Curse, bless, me immediately with your fierce tears, I pray. Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet who died tragically new-fangled but left a powerful legacy of work. This poem, written to Thomass dying fath er, has a strict mental synthesis, but an unconventional message. Thomas encourages his father to knot and struggle against death, what he calls the dying of the light. Although written for his father, Dylan Thomas himself ironically died the course of instruction after his father.Poetry-poem 12. 1 2010 This lesson plan is the stead of the Mensa Education Research Foundation, www. mensafoundation. org. It is provided as a complimentary service to the public. Reproduction and distribution without modification be allowed. Images, links and linked content referenced herein ar the property of the originating entities. Taking it apart Thomas sees lite as a day death is the closing ot that day, and the dying of the light is the sunset and coming night. beak the pairing of lines 1 3. Gentle matches rage good with dying and night with light.This is a mythological allusion to the gods who could throw lightning bolts and have the skies tremble at the hygienic of their voice. In th is stanza, Thomas says that even though men accept that they are mortal and should die (Death is right), he still encourages a rebellion against it. Stanza 2 talks about how wise men antenna death. This stanza is about how good men do. They see the things they did in life conjecture like light off of a bay. Rather than being useless, it is the old, near dead, grave men who can really see. Gay here means happy or carefree. Notice the oxymorons here blinding sight and blind eyes. There is to a fault a simile comparing eyes that blaze like meteors. Curse, bless, me now witn your tierce tears, I pray. From the general men discussed in the previous stanzas, Thomas narrows to his father in this stanza, pleading with him to fight against death, pleading with him to still be fierce. The lines that have been separated throughout the poem come together in the last couplet to reinforce the theme of the poem. Poetry-poem 12. 2 Memorizing it The form of this poem is called a villanelle. It has only two end rhyme sounds.The irst and third lines of the stanzas rhyme, and the uphold line rhymes with all other second lines. A villanelle ends with a rhyme couplet, and has nineteen lines divided into five tercets and one quatrain at the end. The strict villanelle structure and rhyme scheme make this poem specially easy to memorize, particularly since the last line of the tercets are repetitive you get five lines memorized for the worth of two You actually get more than that because the line Do not go gentle into that good night appears in the poem four times. Using a highlighter or colored pencil, underline the lines that are repeated.