Don’t Give In Dylan Thomas’s poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night", is an urgent plea from Thomas to his dying father, and all men not to give in to death. Thomas uses himself as the speaker to the make the poem more personal. The message of the poem is very inspirational. Throughout the poem, Thomas uses different imagery and language to illustrate the tension between action and inaction. The first …showed first 75 words of 431 total…

…showed last 75 words of 431 total…Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight / Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay.” In these lines death and life is further exemplified. He also enforces the idea that death is not grave, that we should open our minds to the intense feeling that we can experience at the end of life. He also feels that grave men remain serious and blind as they die, though they could be happy and