dylan thomas
...end know dark is right, / Because their words had forked no lighting they/ Do not go gentle into that good night”, Thomas conveys that youthful men or “wise men” understand that death or “dark” is the final result of life, but still think nothing of it. Rather youthful men work feverishly until death itself has taken hold of them. These youthful men do not imagine death in the near future and work with little regard for it.The third stanza brings about the second stage of a mans life, the “good man”. “Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright/ Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay”, is an indication that the “good man” is a family man, a settled man. He is a man that is calm and at ease with life, yet at the same time the reality of the eternal death have frightened him. The “good man” realizes that he could be harmed and his life’s endeavors go unfulfilled. The “good man” is a stable man, but he has allowed the anxiety and fear of death into his heart. Ultimately the “good man” will realize what is in his heart and he lashes out and becomes the “wild man”“Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,/ And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way”, is an indication that a man after he reaching a certain age, has a realization that life is coming to an end whether he likes it or not. “Wild men” are spontaneous and daring, not like the “good men” who are calm and happy, these are indicative of a man who is going through a mid life crisis. The “wild man” has come to see all the things in which he has missed and has learned too late that time is soon coming to an end. It is not to late for the “wild man”, he must simply not “go gentle into that good night”.The fifth and final stage of a mans life is “grave men”. This is a man who has excepted his fate, he is near his death and is set in his ways of living. He is “blind” to the fact that he has one final chance to live life and be “gay” or happy. The “grave man” is a man who does not like what the world has become; he yearns for the world of his youth and knowing that that will never be, he shuts himself off from life. Thomas does not say that this is the end for the “grave man”, oh no, if only he fought against death instead of a passive exceptive of death, he might have fulfilled Thomas view of raging against that final light. “And you, my father, there on the sad height,/ Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray,” he adds “Do not go gentle into that good night”. Thomas is speaking directly to his...