Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas - Poetry: The Best Words in the Best Order - #BlogchatterA2ZChallenge 2021
DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT
‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’ is a poem with powerful imagery that intersperses light and darkness. In the poem, a son exhorts his aged father to fight against death and not fade away gently into the night. “Old age should burn and rave” and not grow dim and die away. The word ‘Night’ refers to Death and ‘Go Gentle’ means to give up without a fight. It is tragic when a man loses his vitality and vigour as he becomes older and faces death at close quarters.
The poem is significant in that different men are being addressed in the six stanzas… the ‘wise’ man, the ‘good’ man, the ‘wild’ man, the ‘grave’ man and finally, the poet’s father. Each of these men rue that they had not reached their full potential, or fulfillment in life.
The Christopher Nolan movie ‘Interstellar’ used the poem as its #OfficialSoundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2y85gW84U
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night - a track by John Lithgow, Ellen Burstyn, Casey Affleck, Jessica Chastain, Matthew McConaughey, Mackenzie Foy from the #OfficialSoundtrack of Interstellar.
Dylan ThomasA reading of the poem by the poet, Dylan Thomas, himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mRec3VbH3w
This post is a part of #BlogchatterA2ZChallenge2021
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What a beautiful and moving poem! Your analysis is superb.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much, Purba! That is music to my ears.
ReplyDeleteMade me think of how essential it is to keep fighting for the light to shine through.
ReplyDeleteYes, Suchita, that, I feel, is the most significant way to live. Fight despite all the odds, and make something of one's life.
DeleteWow. U lovely poem and u explained it in a beautiful way.
ReplyDeleteThank you ever so much, Latha! I am happy that you enjoyed it.
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