Jasmine Anderson
After reading the poem “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night “ by Dylan Thomas”
for the first
time I was very confused
and had no idea
what the author
was trying to
say. After rereading
the poem four
times and identifying the
symbols and symbolic
action, I began
to understand exactly what
Thomas was trying
to say. After
analyzing this poem I
have
come to the
conclusion that Thomas
is addressing death
and how we
should go out
with a fight rather
than excepting it
and dying quietly.
The title
really helped me
bring significance to
this poem. The title
uses symbols such
as night. As
soon as I saw
the word night I
came up
with the connotation
of darkness, sleep,
and death. The
title showed me that the poem was
going to be
about death and
how something should
be fought.
In
the second line
of the first stanza the
speaker say’s “old
age should rave
at close of day”
. To
me Thomas was expressing his personal
feeling toward death.
I think that Thomas was implying that
as we become
older instead of
looking toward death
we should be
using our energy
to fight death,
addressing it with
anger. When he
uses the symbol
burn I automatically
think of energy, something
that isn’t painful.
In the
second stanza the
speaker says “through
wise man at
their end know
dark is right, because
their words have forked no
lighting they do
not go gentle
into the good night.”
To me this means that
a wise mad
can tell when
death is near and they
will not go out without
a fight. Thomas also says
Rang, Rang, in
the last line
of the first
stanza. This shows
me that it is
very important to him.
To me this means
that we should
have uncontrollable anger
toward death.
In conclusion
I think the overall
message of the
poem was to address
his
dying father.
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