Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

STRUCTURE

• Medium length poem, with medium length lines, mostly end stopped lines
• Verse = Blank verse
• stanzas = five trecets and one quatrain at the end
• Rhyme = ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA
• Meter = Iambic Pentameter

REPETITION

• "Rage, rage... Rage, rage"

PERSONIFICATION

• “their words had forked no lightning”

SIMILE

• “Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay”

The poem is about not dying and raging against death, and to never give up hope, because when hope dies everything dies with it.

Related song: Dream On by Aerosmith

Thomas, Dylan "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" Reading The World: Contemporary Literature From Around The Globe. Ed. Carol Francis. Logan, IA: Perfection Learning, 2014. ebook.

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