‘The poem ‘Do Not Go into That Gentle Night’ written by the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas is a very interesting poem to be read. Reading the poem for the first time, one might have the mixed feeling of being urged and inspired in the same time. This might be because; the poem is unique in its very own way that grabs people’s attention and interest from various perceptive and ways such as how structure, the massages, the language used, the meaning of the lines in the stanza, the mood of the poem and the feeling of the poet when he wrote the poem.
It is known that the poem ‘Do Not Go into That Gentle Night’ is considered one of Dylan Thomas’s most popular poems. As seen, the poem is structured in a very unique way specifically acknowledged as Villanelle which has different structure from a sonnet or ballad poems. A villanelle poem is constructed in 19 lines sentences in six stanzas, made of stanzas of three lines sentences for the first five and the last stanza of four lines sentences. It is required in the structure of form of a villanelle poem to have two rhymes two and refrains repeated. For instance, the words ‘night’ and ‘light’ which found in first stanza, the sentence ‘do not go gentle into that good night’ and ‘rage, rage against the dying of the light’ are the repeated rhymes and refrain found in Dylan Thomas’s poem. …show more content…
Apart from that, the poem could be viewed as a form of revelation by Dylan Thomas to his father who was feeling below par. The poem has no other title but the first line of the poem; do not go gentle into that good night. The title of the poem seems to give out the abridgement of the poem that screams Dylan Thomas’s pleads and intentions towards the nations and his own
It is known that the poem ‘Do Not Go into That Gentle Night’ is considered one of Dylan Thomas’s most popular poems. As seen, the poem is structured in a very unique way specifically acknowledged as Villanelle which has different structure from a sonnet or ballad poems. A villanelle poem is constructed in 19 lines sentences in six stanzas, made of stanzas of three lines sentences for the first five and the last stanza of four lines sentences. It is required in the structure of form of a villanelle poem to have two rhymes two and refrains repeated. For instance, the words ‘night’ and ‘light’ which found in first stanza, the sentence ‘do not go gentle into that good night’ and ‘rage, rage against the dying of the light’ are the repeated rhymes and refrain found in Dylan Thomas’s poem. …show more content…
Apart from that, the poem could be viewed as a form of revelation by Dylan Thomas to his father who was feeling below par. The poem has no other title but the first line of the poem; do not go gentle into that good night. The title of the poem seems to give out the abridgement of the poem that screams Dylan Thomas’s pleads and intentions towards the nations and his own