It is natural for the father to bless his son. The poem ends on an ironic, c, not with Thomas exhorting his father to both bless and curse him. Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that Good Night
The acceptance is suggested not that of a stoic but one of a warrior struggling to save life into the last. The father faced night and darkness doubly the darkness of blindness and thee”.ĭifferent people approach death differently and the poem is written in praise of life and acceptance of death. Thomas had great respect for his father for his strength of character and independence of judgment, qualities which suffered because of his illness. Thomas appeals to his father, not to give in but to struggle against the impend- ing death and obliteration, though at the same he admits the inevitability of death.
It is also underlined with finality and inevitability. Do not go gentle into that good night AnalysisĪ typical example of such use is in juxtaposing light and night in ‘good night’ which is symbolic of death, suggestive of farewell, and also implies that the night I, e.
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