Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night An inspiring poem written by Dylan Thomas showing a Villanelle form of six stanzas given a situation where the father is dying and the son wants him to fight death and not give into it The poem then starts in the first stanza with the speaker urging the father to not go gentle into that good night and the phrase good night is as we all know said to some one who is going to sleep and in fact in Christian context death is considered to be a long rest and no t
What do Dylan Thomas Elizabeth Bishop and William Shakespeare all have in common The answer is death No not the fact that all three of these poets are dead but the way in which they dealt with the morality of there loved ones They all new there loved ones would die so they encased there loved one memory in literature forever Thomas and Bishop both use a villanelle format which means there are two repeative lines in though ought the poem Shakespeare uses the sonnet format which is a poem with fo