1. Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
By Dylan Thomas
Bsada Sahioun
Dylan Noonan
Youssef El-Militi
Yousef Alzoughby

2. Do not go gentle into that good night, A Old age should burn and rave at close of day; B Rage, rage against the dying of the light. A Though wise men at their end know dark is right, A Because their words had forked no lightning they B Do not go gentle into that good night. A Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright A Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, B Rage, rage against the dying of the light. A Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, A And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, B Do not go gentle into that good night. A

3. Part 2
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight A Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, B Rage, rage against the dying of the light. A And you, my father, there on the sad height, A Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. B Do not go gentle into that good night. A

4. Poem Analysis
This poem is a villanelle consisting of 5 tercets and 1 quatrain and having an iambic pentameter as its meter which makes it the ideal villanelle.

5. Positives and Negatives
Do not go gentle into that good night, A Old age should burn and rave at close of day; B Rage, rage against the dying of the light. A Though wise men at their end know dark is right, A Because their words had forked no lightning they B Do not go gentle into that good night. A Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright A Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, B Rage, rage against the dying of the light. A Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, A And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, B Do not go gentle into that good night. A Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight A Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, B Rage, rage against the dying of the light. A And you, my father, there on the sad height, A Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. B Do not go gentle into that good night. A Rage, rage against the dying of the light. A 26P 36N

6. Do not go gentle into that good night,
STANZA 1
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.
The speaker is addressing an unknown listener telling him not to “go gentle into that goodnight ( death )”
“Night” is a metaphor for death.
Rave: talking wildly.

7. STANZA 2
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. Even though smart people know that death Is inevitable, they don’t accept letting themselves fade away because they didn’t achieve what they wanted to achieve yet. Forked: divide into 2 parts

8. STANZA 3
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. As good men approach death they shout out what they could have achieved if they lived longer. Waves represent generations of people and how loudly they shout(fight for life) before they crashes. Frail: weak and delicate

9. STANZA 4
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. The speaker is talking about men that enjoyed life to the fullest and then realize that it passed them by as their “sun”(life) is setting and they grieve as it is passing them by rather than enjoy what’s rest of their lives. Grieve: to feel sadness.

10. Stanza 5
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. The speaker of the poem is talking about “Grave Men” (which is a pun over the word grave that either means serious or approaching death) and how they fight death at the end of their lives.

11. Stanza 6
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 of the light.
In the last stanza of the poem the speaker finally reveals the one who he is speaking to which is his father and begs him to “curse, bless” him rather than just give in to death. The father is described as sitting(or laying) on “the sad height” which could possibly be a bed or on the verge of death.
Fierce: Having or displaying an intense or ferocious aggressiveness.

12. BIOGRAPHY
Thomas was born on October 27, 1914 south wales He school at the age of 16 and became a journalist for a short time. He loved the sound of nursery rhymes, which foreshadowed his love for rhythmic ballads Gerard Manley Hopkins and Edgar Allan Poe. By December of 1932, he left his job at the Post and decided to concentrate on his poetry full-time in his late teens, that Thomas wrote more than half of his collected poems. It was when “light breaks where no sun shines” in 1934 that caught the attention of the literary world. His father was an English literature professor at the local grammar school and would often recite Shakespeare to his son.

13. Biography part 2
He became an alcoholic like his father. when Thomas was twenty, he moved to London, won the Poet’s Corner book prize at the age of thirty-five, Thomas visited America for the first time. In 1947 Thomas was awarded a Traveling Scholarship from the Society of Authors Mr. Thomas recorded radio shows and worked as a scriptwriter for the BBC Between 1945 and 1949, he wrote, narrated, or assisted with over a hundred radio broadcasts. Two years after the publication of 18 Poems, Thomas met the dancer Caitlin Macnamara at a pub in London

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