The son is seeing his father slowly wither before him, and he mourns the loss of vibrancy in the old man. Yet for the author, this seemingly senseless display is preferable to docile submission to the “close of day”. The choice of the words “burn” and “rave” suggest an uncontrolled, irrational response to imminent death, the incoherent expenditure of useless energy directed at a hopeless goal. The poet begins by proposing that the elderly should not easily accept their demise (“go gentle”), that they should fight it with vigor and intensity (“Old age should burn and rave at the close of day”). The two lines repeated in this work are “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” and “Do not go gentle into that good night.” A villanelles uses only two rhymes, while repeating two lines throughout the poem, which then appear together at the conclusion of the last stanza. A villanelles is 19 lines long, consisting of five stanzas of three lines each and concluding with a four line stanza. This poem is one of the most famous villanelles every written in the English language. the onset of night, or as it is used here, death. He urges his father to “Rage, rage against the dying of the light,” i.e. In “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” poet Dylan Thomas uses nighttime as a metaphor for death, and anguishes over his father’s willing acceptance of it. On "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
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