Papers on Language & Literature, March 22nd, 1998
Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night" was influenced by William Butler Yeats's "Lapis Lazuli" and William Shakespeare's 'King Lear' but the villanelle bears a stronger resemblance to Shakespeare's play. The attitudes toward how an individual lives in the face of impending death, explored by Thomas, are similarly examined with the portrayal of Gloucester and Lear.
Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night" has been noted to bear the influence of and even echo W. B. Yeats, especially "Lapis Luzuli," and, secondarily via this poem, Shakespeare's King Lear. One schola...
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