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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, By Dylan Thomas

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Mortality has been fought since human consciousness first erupted out of an empty abyss. The uncertainty of what happens after you die has frightened humans for thousands of years, resulting in religion, modern medicine, and thanatophobia. In “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas, the narrator pleads to his father not to accept his death and continue fighting to live. Thomas expresses his beliefs through repetition, metaphors, and familiar diction. The first stanza serves as an exposition for the rest of the poem. In the first line it repeats the title of the poem, forcing into the readers brain the importance “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” is to the poem. What Thomas was trying to do with this piece of repetition
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