Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night / Dylan Thomas


This poem show how those that are dieing do not do so quietly.  They all talk of something on their way out.  Some will rage against it and wish they could have done more in their life.  Some rage about what they have done hoping to live on past their death.  They hope to imprint their legacy onto someone else even when their achievements do not amount to much. The speaker tells what many other men do when they are leaving this world.  The speaker then asks his father to do the same. “Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray” (Thomas 968).  This quote shows what the speaker hopes to accomplish through his fathers raging. He hopes to learn what his father wished to do and what he did do.  This knowledge will make the speaker sad but also bless him with a deeper knowledge of who his father was.

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