![]() ![]() 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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