The poem urges people not to accept death peacefully, but instead to fight against it with passion and intensity. It tells old people, wise people, good people, wild people and grave men nearing death that they should "rage, rage against the dying of the light" and not go gently into the night. The speaker also pleads with his father on his deathbed to fight against death with "fierce tears."
Original Description:
Its a poem composed by Dylan Thomas
Original Title
Don't Go Gentle Into that Good Night By Dylan Thomas
The poem urges people not to accept death peacefully, but instead to fight against it with passion and intensity. It tells old people, wise people, good people, wild people and grave men nearing death that they should "rage, rage against the dying of the light" and not go gently into the night. The speaker also pleads with his father on his deathbed to fight against death with "fierce tears."
The poem urges people not to accept death peacefully, but instead to fight against it with passion and intensity. It tells old people, wise people, good people, wild people and grave men nearing death that they should "rage, rage against the dying of the light" and not go gently into the night. The speaker also pleads with his father on his deathbed to fight against death with "fierce tears."