The Human Reaction

The idea of watching a loved one falling into the clutches of death seems impossible to swallow. It is only natural, then, that one would beg for that person to hold on as long as they could. We see this very situation in Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.”
We know that our speaker gives us examples of different types of men and how they react to their impending fate. “Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright/…Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight/… Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight” (Thomas l. 7, 10, & 13). This is our speaker speaking about those men.
Then, we see in the last stanza, the speaker switch to his father. “Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray,/ do not go gentle into that good night” (Thomas l. 16-17). We see him begging his father to just resist, a totally relatable and human reaction to the idea of losing one’s father.