Summary:
The poet Dylan Thomas leaves a message to his readers to live their lives to the fullest.' Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.' is a compelling and unique work of literature that delivers this message.
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Response to literature
The poet Dylan Thomas leaves a message to his readers to live their lives to the fullest.' Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.' is a compelling and unique work of literature that delivers this message. In this poem the author literally and symbolically shows the reader a man who is next to his dying father. He is telling him to fight on for life and telling him about the good deeds he has done to change a lot of people. Proof that supports this message can be found in lines throughout the poem.
A line that supports the author's message to live life to the fullest reads, "Old age should burn and rave at close of day." At this point the man is telling his father that even though he's growing older and older and dying more and more each day that if he kept going on, he would be able to live a fuller life. The figurative meaning the author is trying to tell is that when peoples' lives are dimming and nearing to the end that if people fight on then people will be able to fulfill their purpose and live a fuller life.
Another explicit line in the poem that gives proof that the author's message is to
live life to the fullest states, "Though wise men at their end know dark is right." This
literally means that wise people know that death is not optional and will come at a certain point. However, the true meaning Mr. Thomas is trying to tell is that wise people
know that death will eventually come but that while living they'll not be bothered by this
we will keep fighting on.
Mr. Thomas again uses another line to support his message. This line states, "Grave men, near death, who sees with blinding sight blind eyes could blaze like meteors
and be gay." These lines literally tell the reader that even if you are blind, that it should not stop you from being able to live a happy life. The real meaning Dylan Thomas is trying to tell is that if you are evil, you cannot see the point of life because he is so conceited. This is causing people to not live their lives to the fullest.
The last line Mr. Thomas uses to prove his message reads, "Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." At this point, the man is again telling his father to fight death. However, the author's genuine intention is quite different. Throughout the poem, the author mentions these lines, but never together. Whenever he says rage, rage he is talking to his father directly, but when he says do not go gentle he is talking about others who were like his father. When he says them both he is essentially saying that his father is basically like any of the other people.
The author uses specific lines to support and carry on the message he leaves in the poem. The message that he leaves in this poem is to live life to the fullest. These are the reasons why Dylan Thomas left a message for readers to pick up.
This is the complete article, containing 540 words
(approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page).
