I always like rhyming poems better than pros, so I can appreciate the rhyming scheme of Dylan Thomas' Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night. The entire poem, is dripping with desperation. It quickly becomes clear that the speaker is begging a loved one NOT to die, to fight and resist death. "Rage, rage against the dying of the light...Do not go gentle into that good night" (Thomas, 968). The "dying of the light" is a metaphor for the ending of a life. That "good night" stands for death itself.
It is later revealed that the poem, is being said by a child to his dying father. The speaker admits that he knows death is the best thing for his father. However, he can not bear to let him go. The speaker's relationship with his father must have been unbelievably strong. The pain of the son can be felt through the words of this poem.
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