You might just know it as "that one poem from Interstellar." Pretentious Factor If you haven't figured it out, night is death (and, more literally, the blindness that comes with old age), and the speaker is telling us to not go quietly, but to strive to live so that we can go out with a bang. As we'll see in the final stanza, the poem addresses Dylan's father who, when Dylan wrote this, was going blind and dying. It's a villanelle, so we should be prepared for the repetition of the first and third line throughout the poem, along with the continuing rhyme scheme. You're looking at the opening stanza of Dylan Thomas's most famous poem, " Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night." Family Dylan Thomas Life Relationship Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night Death Experience Poetry Home Context
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