Do Not Go Gentle Into The Good Night Analysis

“My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” (Clarence Kelland) Dylan had some mixed emotions when he wrote the poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into The Good Night”. If a person were to read the poem they would be able to see through the writing the emotion that was felt. The man was depressed and even bitter, but that’s understandable due to the fact the matter was so personal. In the poem, though he talks about death and raging against the dying light which can be interpreted many different ways. The poem could be about going blind or seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, but it was written to his dying father, telling him to fight no matter what. “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” he was sitting there telling his father to keep fighting, not to give up but yet he was drinking himself to death. Thomas seemed to think that you could avoid death, but in reality death is unavoidable.

When Dylan wrote this though he covered four different types of men, wise men, good men, wild men, and grave men. They all seem to have something in common, which would be regret. “Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright their frail deeds might of danced in a green bay” realizing how he regrets how he didn’t do enough in his life on his dying breath. We …show more content…
They both had different meaning one was more personal with real emotions. Catherine Davis poem wasn’t deep nor did it have any kind of meaning to it. It has a simplistic feeling to it in its own way, the type of attitude that it portrayed “it is what it is” kind of feeling to it. She mentions “one more thing lost is one thing less to lose, ” she is implying that the lesser things that you have in life the minimal loss you experience in life. The point she comes across is that the less things that matter to you in life the less loss you will