do not go gentle into that good night by dylan thomas

The first chapter serves as a brief introduction to the background information of Dylan Thomas, the writing background of the poem, and the writing style of Dylan. A villanelle is a nineteen-line poem of fixed form consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain. ' Do not Go Gentle into That Good Night' is a villanelle. This paper aims to analyze this poem from the perspective of the elements of poetry and stylistics.

Thomas's poetry is notable for its musicality. His images were carefully ordered in a patterned sequence, and his major theme was the unity of all life, the continuing process of life and death and new life that linked the generations. Thomas's verbal style played against strict verse forms, such as in the villanelle ' Do not Go Gentle into That Good Night'. Dylan’s father became very different and this was the reason why Dylan urged his father to burn for life, to fight against death before he passed away. Thomas was very strong, energetic and militant for the most part of his life, but he became amiable and genial when he got ill. Thomas was eloquent and towered the average in intelligence, but he could not stand out for his sharp words. Thomas felt sullen over his whole life and he thought his talent unrecognized. When Dylan was very little, his father often read Shakespeare’s poems for him and other children, and Dylan could read Shakespeare’s poem when he was only four years old. Thomas has a great influence on Dylan Thomas. Thomas was a grammar teacher in a Swansea grammar school. His sudden death at the age of thirty nine was caused by his drinking eighteen glasses of whiskey.ĭo not Go Gentle into That Good Night was written by Dylan Thomas to urge his dying father to fight against death. He published other collections of poems in succession. He published his first book Eighteen Poems. He won fame early as poet when he was only twenty years old. He got known after he won a poem contest in a newspaper. He quitted school at 16 for poor academic performances in some subjects because he favored English and reading and neglected other subjects. He was born on Octoin a coastal city in south Wales, Swansea and died on Novemin New York. Dylan Marlais Thomas was a welsh poet and writer.

Do not go gentle into that good night by dylan thomas