![]() ![]() ![]() This poem uses primarily visual imagery that makes it so the reader can almost see the events as described themselves. Throughout the piece, the author effectively utilizes instances of vivid imagery that allows the reader to view the events taking place through one of the five senses. The imagery used in this piece helps greatly to convey the writer’s meaning. Thomas uses imagery and repetition, in ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’ to convey the speaker’s view that people should fight against death and to beg his father who is on his deathbed to hold onto his life for as long as he can. Throughout the piece, the reader is able to glean that Thomas is the speaker in the poem directly addressing his father. This poem brings up themes of death, aging, and grief. The poem is written in the highly structured form of a villanelle. ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’ written by Dylan Thomas in 1947 is one of Thomas’ most famous pieces of writing. ![]()
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