DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, reage 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 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.

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 the 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 the 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 fo the light.


Analysis

The poem is about getting old. Author used simile, metaphor, and personification an example would be "clothes of day." The poem had a 5 stanzas with 3 lines. The last stanza has 4 lines. The 1st and 3rd lines rhyme. The second lines in each stanza rhyme. An example would be "Night and Light." The speaker of the poem is a son talking to his father. The shift occurs on the line "And you, my father." Angry/desperate is the tone of the poem.