David Ubiera,

Mr. Flake
Honors English 12, Pd.6
9/12/2015

Poem Analysis
The Poem Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
represents a sad person giving life advice to another person. In this poem there are 6
stanzas all of them have three lines except the last one that has four. In the first stanza
the Author uses Meter to start the poem with a rhythm of sadness and darkness Old
age should burn and rave at close of day. At the end of every stanza the author also
uses one of this line Rage, Rage against the dying of the light or do not go gentle into
that good night to give a taste of his anger.
Throughout this poem the author uses different figurative language to achieve his
message some of those are Simile and hyperbole. Mr. Thomas uses simile by
comparing blind eyes to happy meteors Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be
gay. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight here the author uses hyperbole
to exaggerate his thought and give a better glimpse of what he feels men can do.
And you, my father, there on the sad height, curse, bless, me now with your
fierce tears, I pray. Finally, at the end of this sad poem Dylan Thomas ask for
forgiveness and at the same time he asks for punishment and blessings, the author
says And you, my father, there on the sad height, curse, bless, me now with your fierce
tears, I Pray.. However then again he ends up the stanza with the same two sad, angry
lines that he had been saying throughout this whole poem, Do not go gentle into that
goodnight, Rage, rage against the dying of the light .