AN ANALYSIS ON POEM “DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT” BY DYLAND THOMAS

Abstract

Dylan Thomas's renowned poem "Do Not Go Gentle into The Good Night" is recognized for its opening line and its villanelle structure. This poem was Dylan Thomas written for his father when his father was seriously ill. Dylan wrote this poem to urge his father to fight against death. This paper focuses mainly on the poetic analysis on the poem. The poem “Do not Go Gentle into That Good Night” was analyzed from the perspective of poetic elements of poetry. The paper analyzed the poem from its images, metaphor and simile, symbol, rhyme and meter, alliteration and consonance, euphonies and cacophonies, and also its structure. Those analyses are general and rough, and profound analyses are needed.