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A famous villanelle by Dylan Thomas about death, read by the poet in the movie Interstellar. The poem urges people to resist the dying of the light and to rage against old age, wisdom, and gravity.
- Do not go gentle into that good night
- About the Poem
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.
Written in 1951, it has been suggested that the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas dedicated this poem (in the form of a villanelle) to his dying father, who was blind and gravely ill. This work is one of, if not the most, notable and famous poems that Thomas had written.
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 in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
"Do not go gentle into that good night" is a poem in the form of a villanelle by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), and is one of his best-known works. Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, the poem was written in 1947 while Thomas visited Florence with his family.
Do not go gentle into that good night ist ein Gedicht in Form einer Villanelle des walisischen Lyrikers und Schriftstellers Dylan Thomas, das erstmals 1951 in der literarischen Zeitschrift Botteghe Oscure veröffentlicht wurde. Anschließend erschien es in mehreren seiner Gedichtbände, wie etwa in In Country Sleep.
The poem is written in a free verse style and uses strong imagery and metaphors to convey its message. The poem is divided into five stanzas, each of which focuses on a different group of people who should 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,...
