The Poeble Death In Death, Inevitable Death By Dylan Thomas

Death, inevitable death, is a nature process that everyone has to go through, but what way we should go through, and how we should go through it, it’s a different perspective. For poet Dylan Thomas, he begged his father to come up with the vigor and enthusiasm of the young men, to fight with the death, rather than meet the arrival of death quietly, even death is an irreversible and inevitable thing. In the poem, the author used alliteration, assonance, metaphor, simile, and oxymoron to strongly express the hope that his father can fight with the death in the end. The first stanza of the poem points out the theme directly: the elderly should live like blazing fire during burning, fighting fiercely for the arrival of the death, instead waiting …show more content…
The caught the sun and sang actively, to pursue and enjoy their life, but they did not realize the youth is leaving them, older age has came. In the stanza, author used “the sun” to metaphor the beautiful life, it can also be said is the precious fleeting youth. “Sun in flight” referred the time limit for ones in the world; no one can catch the time, no matter how hard we squeeze our palms, time still is able to pass through the finger spaces. As people sang and praised the sun, praised their youth, but never pay attention on their ages, which made them sad, they refused to let death come to them …show more content…
Poet begged him to give impassioned cry, to give his son curse or blessing. “Sad height” is a metaphor for the situation his father being, a cliff or a mountain overlooking the valley of death. “Curse”, “bless” is oxymoron, the poet prayed that his father cursed or blessed him, he hoped his father not to die. Whether curse or blessing is the symbol of the vitality of his father, it’s the resistance of the arrival of death. “Curse”, “blessing”, poet used alliteration here; the readers can imagine the poet was whispering next to his father’s bedside. “Fierce tears” is another metaphor, “tears”, the poet has admitted that that the death is irresistible, and the sadness of his father’s incoming death. “Fierce”, at the other hand, it means to resist and fight against the death. The poem ends with “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light”, the refrains further strengthening the theme of the poem: don’t succumb to the threat of death, to overcome as many as difficulties as you can, and fight until the last