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Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night By Thomas

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In the poem, four different types of men are used to generalise all men. Each of the four middle stanzas, review a single type of man and why they should “not go gentle into that good night”. The last of whose personality is that of “grave men” who were never happy in their lives, however as death encroaches they see that “blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay”. This shows that they finally realised they needn’t have been so serious and could have enjoyed life. Additionally this could be a reference to Thomas’ father as he went blind, enforcing the theory that Dylan, himself, is the narrator. Thomas could have used these men to generalise all men or to symbolise who he thought his father to be: wise, good, wild and grave, and would
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