Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Thomas, Dylan

Primary Category: Literature / Poetry

Genre: Poem

Annotated by:
Chen, Irene
Aull, Felice
  • Date of entry: Jan-24-2003

Summary

A son beseeches his elderly father to fight, rather than accept, death: "Do not go gentle into that good night." He gives examples of how "wise men," "good men," "wild men," and "grave men" "rage against the dying of the light," and begs his father to do the same.

Miscellaneous

First published: 1951

Primary Source

The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas

Publisher

New Directions

Place Published

New York

Edition

1971