Poem: Do not go gentle into that good night
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- Structure
- Meaning
- The speaker talks about how cruel old age can be, how close to death can make someone furious. The speaker addresses the passage of time in a way that a place where there was light was losing its shine, when speaker says that "at their end know dark is right", (line 4) he still on the death of light. The speakers doesn´t tell so much about the place, but the readers can image a setting with darkness, and in the night. This can be notice through the excerpt: "close of the day" ( line 2), and in "into that good night" (lines 1,6,12,18). The readers can relate the situation of the poem when the speaker says about someone called "father", this can be an illusion of God,someone higter than he or she " my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray." ( lines 16, 17)
- imagery
- The poem also is in a visual Imagery the readers can notice it in "Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night" ( 4 stanza). The speaker at all times remembers about the darkness, which is as much as the man looks for the light at the end of his life,
- Language
- This is a villanelle ( 19 lines) poem written in a 5 tercets and 1 quatrains with rhyme scheme ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA. The events are in the third person, the speaker doesn´t refer himself here, and has presences of pronouns like "their" and "they" in the entire poem. Each stanza can refers to a someone specific, like: "Old age" ( 2 line) " wise men" (4 line) "Good men" ( 7 line) "Wild men" ( 10 line) " Grave men" ( 13 line ); "my father" ( 16 line).The poem is still in lyric poem, the speaker expresses her/his stronger feeling and thoughts in the whole poem, the readers can notice it in this examples excerpt: " Though wise men at their end know dark is right" ( line 4)
- Langage
- Effect
- Although, the speaker intermediate the stanzas saying "to Rage, rage against the dying of the light"( lines: 3,9,15,19), these excerpts symbolize anaphora, because repeat many times, when we can do an allusion when says: "dying" with "light" we can imagine something likes " light of darkness", this doesn´t symbolize a good situation. Also he or she demosntrate a "fight" against the death, showing nonconformities using the word "rage", this repetition in the entire poem try to emphasize it.After, the readers can notice simile in this excerpt: "Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay." ( lines: 13,14) because the speaker compare "blind eyes" as "meteors" .
- The readers can see a metaphor in : "Old age should burn and rave at close of day (line 2) when the speaker compare "old age " with something that "burn". Then, the readers can notice personification in " Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright" ( line 7), where the speaker give qualitites of "cry" for the wave. Alliteration: " Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (lines 1,6,12,18) Consonance: into , and, against, dying ( 1 stanza) ; father, there, the (6 stanza) Assonance: last wave have ( lines 7,8) ; men, death/ near, see ( line 13)
- The poem makes us feel helpless about life. Shows how death takes everything. Regardless of whether you were a good or a bad person, at some point death will come and it will not be easy to deal with it. However, the poem shows that one must face death regardless of any situation, being weak, sick, young or old
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