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Analysis Of Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

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In “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” the poet, Dylan Thomas explores the theme of death through metaphors where “good night” is being compared to death. The narrator in the poem wants his father to fight against death. He tells his father to “rage” “against the dying of the light” which he sees coming soon. (line 3) The dying of the light is being referred to the father’s life ending and the narrator wants him to have a determined attitude to oppose death. The narrator does not want let death have its way to take his father so, he can hold life for as long as possible. He desires his father’s “old age” to “burn” so that he has the ability to stay in his life longer. (line 2) He encourages his father to survive even if there may be struggling

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