Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

“Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” was written specifically for Thomas’s dying father it is even more poignant in the emotional weight the words convey. This poem radiates with intensity, in particular, the verse beginning: “wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight” is simply beautiful poetry. The acceptance of death and a peaceful rest afterwards are pushed aside in favor of an ungentle rage so blind it almost mirrors …

…rage. These emotion seem to run unchallenged throughout the poem even though the style beckons structure and discipline within the theme of "night" and "light". Though the theme is paradoxical, it declares to all: Live your life while you are actually dying. Do not accept death passively. Live intensely and resist death passionately. All the beautifully contrasting metaphors where Thomas’s way of gracefully asking his father not to leave him alone, in the dark.