View Do Not Go Gentle Poem PNG. Oh why begrudge my right to judge if on my final day i calmly slip away? A poem dylan thomas dedicated to his father, david john thomas, a militant man who had been strong in his youth, but who weakened with age two key words convey the essence of the poem, the imperative form of the verb 'rage' and its opposite 'go gentle'.
Many years later when the father lay on his deathbed, dylan thomas wrote a poem that captures the profound sense of empathy he felt for the dying old man.
The message is made clear with a number of literary devices, the most evident of whic. Go and gentle do not alliterate; The only person i can't show the little enclosed poem to is, of course, my father, who doesn't know he's dying. The poem 'do not go gentle into that good night' is in the form of a villanelle, six stanzas with a simple rhyme scheme along with a complex message of the poem.