This poem is full of theme. There is some in each stanza, even each line. But, there is a bigger picture to all these little ones that the overall poems theme. The poem is written by Dylan Thomas. He had wrote it for his dying father.
In Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” he writes “Do not go gentle into that good night” (Thomas,1). Not only is it the title of the poem it it used four times throughout the poem. Which in a certain light has to have some sort of symbolism. In this case it is the biggest one in the poem and the theme. It can include that the night in which it talks about is actually death. One of the themes could be, going of that night is a symbol for death, is that death should not be something in which you are okay with you should be scared and try to fight death. Let it not defeat you till the very end. While the second theme is that even at the best of nights it is still a bad and scary place to be. With that the first one is more of a deep meaning and the second one is more of a surface feeling.
There is another line that Dylan Thomas used a lot in the poem. “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” (Thomas,3). This line was used 4 different times throughout the poem and has a great theme to it as well. The theme of this one is that no matter
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“Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.” (Thomas,10-12). These are the party animals and are probably dying of an alcohol problem or a drug overdose. In the minutes before they are dying they wish they would have settled down or at least do something with their life other than parting way to hard. They could also be regretting the choices they made in drinking and the drugs. Which is just a different type of person the ends up in the situation where they are trying to fight against the sneaky thing called