1. How to interpret the line, “Because their words had forked no lightning they?” 2. What does the line, “Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,” refer to? Summary This villanelles poem, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Night,” is one of the famous poems of Dylan Thomas. The poem has 19 lines, and it uses only two rhymes. It also has the characteristics of a villanelles type poem because it repeats two lines throughout the poems. The two lines are “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” and “Do not go gentle into that good night.” In this poem, the poet encourages his father not to give up and to put a fight against the death to survive as a brave man. The poet uses the techniques of juxtaposition as in the action of struggle for life to fight death against the action of nearly dying person waiting for death. Moreover, he uses metaphors of death in many words. This poem delivers his message to his nearly dying dad. Through his poem, we can see the way he is worrying about his death, and his anxiety of seeing withering of his once strong father. …show more content…
Here, we can see that the poet uses nighttime such as good night, close of day and the dying of the light as a metaphor for death. He tells that old person to not give up easily in the line “Do not go gentle into that goodnight,” and he titled the poem with this line. Moreover, he again urges the old man to put a fight against death through the words, “burn and rave.” The combination of these two words also shows the pain that the old person suffering. Also, the poet urging become more intense in the last line, “Rage, rage against the dying of the light,” because he uses the word “rage” for two