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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night By Dylan Thomas

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Death can be a destructive obstacle in our lifetimes. Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” discusses the theme of death. It also depicts how the poem shows the theme of family. The two of these themes come together in the poem to exhibit how death in the family affects people in the family. The theme of death in the poem is shown through the reiteration of the line "Rage, rage against the dying of the light." And his last stanza.
Thomas uses a paradox of day and night. A paradox is a seeming contradiction that is used to express how we cannot always have what seems natural or better. Thomas utilizes the paradox in order to show the difference between death and life. In lines 1 and 2 when Thomas states “ Do not go gentle
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