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Analysis Of Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

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Dylan Thomas, in his poem “Do not go gentle into that good night,” asserts that those who are nearing the end of their lives should resist death at all costs by encouraging them to “…rage against the dying of the light” and avoid going “gentle into that good night” (Thomas 1,3). In order to express this theme throughout the poem, Thomas uses an extended metaphor comparing a night to a lifetime in which the sunset represents death. With each stanza, he uses repetition to describe a different group of men who all were facing death, but fought strongly fought against it. Thomas also uses the image of a dying light and a good night as oxymorons to contrast life and death. It is in the last stanza, the only quatrain in the poem, where Thomas switches
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