Analysis of "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas.
"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced …
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…not enjoy it.
Then Thomas goes into talking about his father and says "curse, bless me now", implying that death is not only a curse, but also a blessing. It is a curse because life is over, and I think that Thomas believes that there is no afterlife, yet it is a blessing due to the existentialist view that life essentially means nothing and that the nobility is in the struggle, not in life itself.
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