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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night - Dylan Thomas [1914-1953]

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Dylan Thomas was born at home in Swansea, Wales in 1914.
His parents were middle class. His father was a schoolmaster in English at the local grammar school.
Dylan Thomas was anxious in himself as a child and sometimes unwell.
He was often absent from school and dropped out at sixteen. He preferred to read on his own.
He did very well in English and reading, but neglected other subjects.
As a poet it is clear that Dylan Thomas enjoyed playing with language.
?Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night? is an emotional and touching appeal to his dying father not to die.
Though Dylan?s father was an English teacher, he didn?t like his job.
However, Dylan was always grateful to his father for giving him a love of literature.
Thomas feared, respected, and deeply loved his father.
His father had been ill a long time without realising that he was dying.
Thus he couldn?t show his father this emotional poem.
Dylan Thomas spoke this poem to his father in his mind, but not in real life.
The poem is a villanelle. A villanelle is made up of five stanzas of three lines followed by a final stanza of four lines. See the note on ?Form? below.
It is normal for two of the lines to be repeated in a pattern throughout the poem.
So even though it is a nineteen-line poem, there are only thirteen individual lines of poetry to understand.
Dylan Thomas? poetry is known for its vivid and often fantastic i... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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