DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THE GOOD NIGHT- BY DYLAN THOMAS
From reading this poem i get a feeling of sadness and longing for change, a yearning for a battle between the light of day and the darkness that lies at night.It urges for one to fight, rage, and rave "at the close of day" which to me represents fire, a strong steady light to flicker in the darkness of the night , to remain alive and wake up with the light of day.
In the second stanza the writer talks about men who are torn between two lives "forked no lighting" men ho have lived life ,who have made the best of it but are not quite yet ready to let go as they have felt that they have left a significant difference enough in this world, he asks them to fight, fight and do not go gentle into the night .
He also makes mention of "good men"who are on their last journey on the boat of life , who is crying and cheering and reminiscing of all what they have done in life and may not have done to fight and rage against the waves and do not go crashing into the shore but rage and rage towards the sun , the source of life not into the ever lasting darkness, the dying light.
Even men who are dying and those who can not see the light of day knows that death is near ,their eyes still burn like the fire within "blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay" ,to fight for life to fight for chance to exist , fight to be alive and to be able to live again once more for yet another day.
At the end of the poem the poet gets personal and introduces us to his father who we find out is on his death bed , who is slowly sleeping away into the abyss.He is asking his father to to be how he he use to be when he was filled with life ,he begs his father to fight it ,"do not go into that gentle good night but remain on earth with me and remain as you were , filled with life wise and fierce.
From reading this poem i get a feeling of sadness and longing for change, a yearning for a battle between the light of day and the darkness that lies at night.It urges for one to fight, rage, and rave "at the close of day" which to me represents fire, a strong steady light to flicker in the darkness of the night , to remain alive and wake up with the light of day.
In the second stanza the writer talks about men who are torn between two lives "forked no lighting" men ho have lived life ,who have made the best of it but are not quite yet ready to let go as they have felt that they have left a significant difference enough in this world, he asks them to fight, fight and do not go gentle into the night .
He also makes mention of "good men"who are on their last journey on the boat of life , who is crying and cheering and reminiscing of all what they have done in life and may not have done to fight and rage against the waves and do not go crashing into the shore but rage and rage towards the sun , the source of life not into the ever lasting darkness, the dying light.
Even men who are dying and those who can not see the light of day knows that death is near ,their eyes still burn like the fire within "blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay" ,to fight for life to fight for chance to exist , fight to be alive and to be able to live again once more for yet another day.
At the end of the poem the poet gets personal and introduces us to his father who we find out is on his death bed , who is slowly sleeping away into the abyss.He is asking his father to to be how he he use to be when he was filled with life ,he begs his father to fight it ,"do not go into that gentle good night but remain on earth with me and remain as you were , filled with life wise and fierce.
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