Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night By Dylan Thomas
DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT – We are going to read the full text of the poem that was written by Dylan Thomas.
As mentioned above, it was written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. It is written in the poem of a villanelle, which is a poem consisting of five stanzas of three lines, then followed by a single stanza of four lines.
This is Thomas’ famous work. It was first written in 1947 when he was in Florencem and published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951. It is said that it was written for his dying father.
Here is the full text of the poem uplifted from Famous Poets and Poems:
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.
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.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on that sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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