Do Not Go Gently Into the Night
The speaker urges his father to struggle with death which has upset the speaker for. Rage rage against the dying of the light. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas Dylan Person Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay Rage rage against the dying of the light. . Thomas uses literary devices in this poem such as simile personifications and metaphor. Do not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rave at close of day. The speaker uses repetition metaphors alliteration and other rhetorical devices to attribute his attitude concerning his fathers condition. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight And learn too late they grieved it on its way Do not go gentle into that good night. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night bemoans deaths obligation and inevitability pushing the vulnerable to protest their destiny. Witnessing the death of his father makes the speaker think abo...