The speaker
The impassioned, forceful narrator of the poem.
The father
The father of the speaker, who is blind and dying. The end of the poem reveals that he is the person the speaker is addressing.
The impassioned, forceful narrator of the poem.
The father of the speaker, who is blind and dying. The end of the poem reveals that he is the person the speaker is addressing.
The Question and Answer section for Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
I don't know if the number of lines represent something. The first three lines of “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” establish the poem's themes and its form but the poem develops from there.
The poem was first published in 1951.
In the opening, "Do not go gentle into that good night," Thomas uses an euphemistic metonymy for death. "That good night", associated with death, describes death as "good" to overcome the negative connotation one ususlly connects to the idea of...