Death Blog Post #3

"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas

#2 Apart from the fixed form, the poem creates another structural principle in stanzas two through six by describing in turn "wise me", "Good men", "Wild men", and "Grave men". How does the speaker view these various types of men in their differing stances toward both life and death?

PARADOX: a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that in fact reveals a kind of truth.

 I think this poem was mainly about how death can be a good thing, but those who are near it should not go very easily in to it. They should put up a fight. The different men that the author addresses are different kinds of people in the world. The wise man is someone who is smart and has a lot of knowledge. They would be the logical thinkers who know it is time for death and are ready to embrace what would come next. They do not go into death easily because "their words had forked no lightning" (Thomas 968). They only spoke and thought about things, they never did anything good with their actions. The good men are those of us who do good in our world. They do good things and provide good deeds. These men fight against death because there is so much more good to be done from them. Then, the wild men are those people who are crazy and do harmful things to themselves and others. These people don't go into their death very well because they have learned too late that they should have been doing good with their lives instead of wasting it away. Finally, the grave men are the serious people in the world. They fight against death because they know it is a serious thing and see what needs to happen and take it seriously.