The Calling is Dim

In Dylan Thomas's poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" you get a feeling to fight. It gives off the perspecive to live life and don't let death intervein. Do not go quietly into the dark, but rather strive to live. "Do not go gentle into that good night" (Thomas l. 13). This gives us that immage. Once your light goes out inside you, or you travel into the light, you are gone. You leave behind all your loved ones and life itself. People dont want to loose their loved ones. That is why I think that this poem is the speakers frusteration with death. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" (Thomas l. 3). This gives the mood of the speaker. The Speaker is who is upset at the dimness of the light, not those who are dying. We find out that the speaker is in this mood because s/he is losing a father. "And you, my father, there on the sad height" (Thomas l. 16). Once your light goes out inside you, you have lost. Also once you go into the light you've lost. The message of this poem is to fight, no give in.

Jason Brown