Dylan Thomas, a British author in the 1930s and 1940s, wrote about his life experiences and how he was affected by them. One of his most famous poems resulted from a rather emotionally painful period in his life: his father’s slow, lingering death. This close proximity with death led Thomas to evaluate his life and the lives of others, and he wrote a poem about what he had discovered. Dylan Thomas wrote “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” for his father; however, certain aspects of the poem give
expressing them incorrectly. In Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night", flawless form meets faultless function to create a haunting, yet beautifully meaningful piece. Thomas' poem is a villanelle in which he embodies his poem. The villanelle consists of five, three line stanzas, and one closing quatrain. A villanelle needs only two rhyming sounds, but uses repetition to scatter these throughout the poem. By separating his ideas into six different clusters, Thomas conveys powerful messages
In the imagery of Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” (2004, p. 738) and “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” by Robert Herrick (2004, p. 715-716) both authors use words to evoke a response from their readers. The son in “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”, by Dylan Thomas opens with a battle cry that his father should “burn and rage” (Thomas, 2004, p. 738, line 2) against death. Using the symbolism of light as life and night as death, the son tries to rally his father to