Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Do Not Go Gentle inot That Good Night

The repeating of the lines "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "Rage, rage against the dying of the light", are used throughout the poem in different ways to give each line a new meaning. In each stanza a new type of person is explained and shows how each one deals with death or "The night" and how one should fight off death. In the last stanza the speaker is talking to his father who he is hopefully praying that he will fight off death like the many other types of people he has listed before.

1 comment:

Kent said...

Mickey - you need to explain what the meanings of the new lines are. Go further than an explanation of just the form.