Analysis poem

Do Not Go Gently InTo That Good Night

Do Not Go Gently InTo That Good Knight , is one of the famous poem of Dylan Thomas . It was written in the year 1951 , quiet late in his career . The poem reveals the personal experience of the poet . This poem is addressed to Dylan 's father . His father was a robust military man but in his old age , he became weak and blind . Dylan was disturbed by his father 's infirm condition and through the poem , he wants to arouse him to the fierce man

he was before . In the poem he gives the example of wise man , good man , wild man and grave man to inspire his father not to give to death easily . The poem is written in the villanelle form . It is a French poetic form : a 19-line poem , originally French that uses only two rhymes and consists of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain The first and third lines of the first stanza are alternately repeated as a refrain that closes the following stanzas , and are joined as a final couplet of the quatrain (Encarta (R ) World English Dictionary (c (P ) 1998-2005 Microsoft Corporation . All rights reserved ) Dylan had profound respect for his father 's romising and independent nature He could not accept his soft nature , now tamed by illness . Dylan contains his strong emotions (as he finds his father facing death ) in the poem through the complex poetic form , villanelle

The form of the poem is in contrast to the content in the poem . The form is controlled , strict , and regular and the content is a message to his ill father to fight death : Rage , rage against the dying of the night . The irony here lies in awakening a dying person to show violent anger against the impending death . The form includes some repetitions which help Dylan to develop the poem gradually the theme of the poem with the primary focus on the important message . The first line of the first stanza Do Not Go Gently InTo That Good Knight ' and the last line Rage , rage against the dying of the night , repeat alternatively in the consecutive four stanzas and join as the final couplet of the quatrain at the end . The repetitions add emphasis to the central theme of the poem i .e , the poet inspires his sick father not to surrender in face of death

In the first stanza of the poem , the poet commands his old father not to accept defeat in face of death . Even when infirm and old , man should be energetic and complain in face of death . In the last line of the stanza the poet calls his father to show strong anger in front of death In this stanza , `good night , `close of day ' and `dying of light ' are links to death . In the next stanza , the poet gives the example of wise men . The poet tells his father that wise men know that death is the ultimate truth...