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Introduction
Do not go gentle into that good night" is a poem in the form of a villanelle by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), and is one of his best-known works. Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, the poem was written in 1947 while Thomas visited Florence with his family. The poem was subsequently included, alongside other works by Thomas, in In Country Sleep, and Other Poems (New Directions, 1952) and Collected Poems, 1934-1952 (Dent, 1952). The poem entered the public domain on 1 January 2024. It has been suggested that the poem was written for Thomas's dying father, although he did not die until just before Christmas in 1952.
While this poem has inspired a significant amount of unique discussion and analysis from such critics as Seamus Heaney, Jonathan Westphal, and Walford Davies, some interpretations of the poem's meaning is under general consensus. "This is obviously a threshold poem about death", Heaney writes, and Westphal agrees, noting that "[Thomas] is advocating active resistance to death." Heaney thinks that the poem's structure as a villanelle "[turns] upon itself, advancing and retiring to and from a resolution" in order to convey "a vivid figure of the union of opposites" that encapsulates "the balance between natural grief and the recognition of necessity which pervades the poem as a whole." Westphal writes that the "sad height" Thomas refers to in line 16 is "of particular importance and interest in appreciating the poem as a whole." He asserts that it was not a literal structure, such as a bier, not only because of the literal fact that Thomas' father died after the poem's publication, but also because "it would be pointless for Thomas to advise his father not to 'go gentle' if he were already dead ..." Instead, he thinks that Thomas' phrase refers to "a metaphorical plateau of aloneness and loneliness before death". In his 2014 "Writers of Wales" biography of Thomas, Davies disagrees, instead believing that the imagery is more allusive in nature, and that it "clearly evokes both King Lear on the heath and Gloucester thinking he is at Dover Cliff."
BlueMoon’s Thoughts
The English language has the largest vocabulary in the world, mainly because it takes on words from other languages. The main “influencers” on the English language are related to ancient immigration into England: Romans (Latin and Greek), Anglo-Saxons (Old English), Vikings (Norse) and Normans (French). Choosing words in writing generally requires one not to repeat words. If a powerful word though is used correctly, the repetition only adds to its strength as seen in this poem.
Acknowledgements
Each video requires a substantial team effort to make. We would like to thank our voice over actor, Shane Morris, who tirelessly strives to deliver these words in a manner like no other. A special thanks to our graphic design artist, Cristina Santana for all her effort and helping bring the scene to life through the generation of AI images.
Copyright
Both the graphics and voiceover in this video are original pieces of work, and the poem is in the public domain. The music you hear is commercially licensed under Audiojungle. It is a called “Emotional Build Up,” by AtisFreivalds.
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6 сен 2024
