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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night By Dylan Thomas

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In Dylan Thomas’s poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” the speaker addresses old men coming close to meeting death should avoid dying as much as possible. Although death is inevitable, they should not die without putting up a fight. Thomas encourages old men to be infuriated that death is the ending factor of life. Towards the end of the poem, we learn that Thomas’s attitude towards death is personal. He knows his father is dying; therefore, his attitude in the poem reflects his emotion towards the pain a son feels when their father is dying.
Perhaps encouraging men to fight death may delay the pain a son feels when his father is dying. However, death being evitable the pain will come back around sooner or later. Throughout the poem,

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