Do+Not+Go+Gentle+Into+That+Good+Night

Please read the poem below and share a a brief analysis below.

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__Najah Harris__: //"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."// Based on the first line I believe the poet is witnessing the death of either a young man.The poet wants the man who is dying ti fight against death because he is too young to die. //"Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they"// The poet is telling the dying man that the wise men before him can accept death, because they have left their marked on the world with their words. The dying man have to leave his mark on the world and only then he can accept the darkness of death.

__KIM NEUBAUER__ I think the poem is about how the speaker has a father that is dying and he/she does not want them to die. However, the speaker realizes that death is a part of life, but he/she still doesn't want him to leave and wants him to fight death, so the speaker says "Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Also, the speaker could be saying that when someone dies, they shouldn't just peacefully die--they should go out with a bang so to speak by saying "Do not go gentle into that good night...Rage, rage against the dying light."

Eileen Toribio The poem is clearly about death. How the old and the wise spend their lives living a certain way and then later ending up to regret it. They are the ones who have poured so much into the world and now they have to leave it. Throughout the poem he id telling them not yo go easily. To fight for it because they belong here. But he soon realizes that death for anyone is a natural thing that will happen regardless.

JULIAN WATSON

The poem has an undertone and a revealing theme of fighting against death by not going into the light. It also seems to hold a naturistic value of support due to men fighting against the sand which seems to hold a value of the human will to live.

GARRETT WATSON I noticed that the end of each stanza has a switch of lines, so its as if when the man has a chance to kill, do not join the darkness and do bad deeds and when you see the lights they say when your dying don't go towards it for it will be your end on either force-pro or con depending on your view.

KAIRA BRICKHOUSE When reading this poem, I found the mood to be encouraging and somewhat confident about death. The title of the poem was my favorite line "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" because it explains how the speaker did not want to die easily. In each stanza he depicts scenarios of people who would not let death take them without a fight, each one using death as symbolism to die for a cause. In the last stanza he prayed that one day he would have the opportunity to die in the same noble fashion.

BRIANNA DYSON This poem is about someone trying to encourage their father to fight death. The dying man is obviously old, and as such understands that death is only natural, but he is still afraid to die and is raging against the light that beckons him. It also talks about men near death who “see with blinding sight” and “learn too late” that they are about to die. These men too fight with all their strength to repel death’s kiss, as all men should refuse to go gently into that goodnight.

Meghan O'Donnell i believe it about not letting go something that you hold dear. Those who live like this, that catch and sing the sun in flight, those that never let go of their dreams and thier beliefs. it is about holding strong to what motivates you for the writer it is his father. he does not wish his father to go but if he must that let him not let go easily but fight till his last dying breath

Rikki Harley I think this poem is about a son who wants his father to fight until the bitter end.He wants to remember his father as a fighter and doesn't want him to succumb to it without any resistance.The speaker,who I assume to be the son compares gives his father examples of the people who rage against the light and wants his father to do the same.He wants his father to match the good men and the wild mens' efforts to escape the dying light.The speaker speaks of the wise,good,grave,and wild men that "rage against the dying of the light".These types of men are very different.Part of me feels as though he's saying his father wouldn't be a man if he does gently into the light,

Melina Smith I think that this poem is about the process of death. "Though wise men at their end know dark is right" I think "dark" refers to God. Meaning that everyone knows that there is a God and that there is an afterlife. "And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way," I think that this line means that a lot of people often don't know he exist and have continued to live a sinful life until they realize that there is a God afterlife, only then it is to late for them to save their selves so they cry as they are on their way to hell.