Throughout the poem, the speaker asserts that those at the end of their lives should fight against death rather than peacefully succumbing to it. He also emphasizes how much they have left to do in their lives, and how they haven’t yet left a large enough legacy. In the final stanza, the speaker reveals that his father is dying, giving personal significance to his feelings about death.
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...
