Thomas, Dylan : Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Literature Annotations

	On-Line Text and Audio
Genre	Poem
Keywords	Aging, Death and Dying, Grief, Illness and the Family, Rebellion
Summary	A son beseeches his elderly father to fight, rather than accept, death: "Do not go gentle into that good night." He gives examples of how "wise men," "good men," "wild men," and "grave men" "rage against the dying of the light," and begs his father to do the same.
Source	The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
Publisher	New Directions
Edition	1971
Place Published	New York
Alternate Source	On Doctoring
Alternate Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Alternate Edition	1995, 2001
Alternate Editors	Richard Reynolds & John Stone
Place Published	New York
Miscellaneous	First published: 1951
Annotated by	Chen, Irene and Aull, Felice
Date of Entry	08/01/93
Last Revised	01/24/03