Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” is a
poem about not dying peacefully when you become old. By this, Thomas means that
one should not die peacefully, but instead should be filled with passion, rage,
and strong emotion opposed to death. Through symbolism, Thomas’ poem says people
should not die peaceful because they should value life, and therefore should fight
for every last bit of it.
First, Thomas’ poem portrays that it is about not dying peacefully,
but fighting for to enjoy ever y bit of life through the poems tone. Majority
of the line of the poem are stated with intensity which is conveyed through his
choice of words. For example, Dylan uses
words such as : burn, rave, rage and lighting.
All of these are meant to produce powerful emotion in Thomas’ readers,
and this is intended for the readers to
relate to Thomas’ message of being passionate about life through emotion of
these words. We can also infer this through his use of command i.e. Thomas’
says “Do not go gentle into that good night” is intense because he is telling
the audience what to do in contrast to asking.
Thanks Nicholas,
ReplyDeleteAs you're writing, try to avoid repetition. This isn't easy to do, because you DO want to stay logically coherent, and you want to reiterate your ideas. But you don't want to repeat the same words or phrases--especially not right next to each other as you do here with the phrase "die peacefully."
By convention, we always refer to authors by their last names. "Thomas," not "Dylan."