Dylan Thomas’s poem, “Do not go gentle into that good night”, comes over as plethora of emotions. It takes on the journey of his feelings about the close proximity of his father's death. It is an emotional rollercoaster as throughout the poem he is confused as to what his reaction to the ordeal should be: at the start he is feeling like he must be strong as in the time of this poems writing, 1951, men were expected to not show emotions and to go through life with a stiff upper lip. He is trying to uphold the attitude - which in his opinion conforms to social norms - by keeping this cold attitude towards his father’s impending demise. However, slowly through the poem you see him forget society's expectations of him as he falls through an endless
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The pause firstly makes the reader notice that particular part more than the rest so rage is evidently what he feels at this point in the poem. It creates a focus on the word rage and therefore it is a significant point in the poem as it is more memorable. Depending on how the reader looks at his poem, this part can now be taken in two ways because of the caesura, they can either read it as begging or anger. A person who read it as begging would have felt sadness at the poem and therefore associated their own feelings with Thomas’s and so this would seem to them like he was pleading. A person who saw these words as anger however feels anger towards the injustice of death and is doing the same so reads it more as shouting.
Throughout the poem, Thomas euphemises the idea of death as much as possible, however, near the very end of the poem, for the first and only time he mentions death outright by saying “Grave men, near death”. This is a clear display of his outrage, which has slowly been increasing through the poem. At this point his rage is at it’s peak and in this moment of madness he exclaims what all the poems true point is except this time not with a euphemism. This shows he is putting less thought into his words creating a feeling of it being rushed, therefore a feeling of panic is created for the
The pause firstly makes the reader notice that particular part more than the rest so rage is evidently what he feels at this point in the poem. It creates a focus on the word rage and therefore it is a significant point in the poem as it is more memorable. Depending on how the reader looks at his poem, this part can now be taken in two ways because of the caesura, they can either read it as begging or anger. A person who read it as begging would have felt sadness at the poem and therefore associated their own feelings with Thomas’s and so this would seem to them like he was pleading. A person who saw these words as anger however feels anger towards the injustice of death and is doing the same so reads it more as shouting.
Throughout the poem, Thomas euphemises the idea of death as much as possible, however, near the very end of the poem, for the first and only time he mentions death outright by saying “Grave men, near death”. This is a clear display of his outrage, which has slowly been increasing through the poem. At this point his rage is at it’s peak and in this moment of madness he exclaims what all the poems true point is except this time not with a euphemism. This shows he is putting less thought into his words creating a feeling of it being rushed, therefore a feeling of panic is created for the