Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

STRUCTURE

• long poem, mainly enjambment with the last line end stopped
• Six stanzas, villanelle
• Scheme rhyme (A1 b A2, a b A1, a b A2… a b A1 A2)
• Spondee

IRONY: “OLD AGE SHOULD BURN AND RAVE AT CLOSE OF DAY

WORDPLAY:“Grave men, near death,”

SIMILIE:“BLIND EYES COULD BLAZE LIKE METEORS AND BE GAY,"

This poem is about fighting for life until your last breath. Thomas reinforces the idea that life is a right worth fighting for. He is speaking to his father as he is dying, asking him to keep fighting so that Thomas can cry either tears of joy or sorrow

KUNG FU FIGHTING

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, 2012. eBook.

MADE BY OLIVIA SMITH