Do not go gentle

Question 1

How is the poem written? (Structure + form)

Answer 1

Villanelle, it’s 19 lines long, con sites of five 3line stanzas and it ends with a 4line stanza, first 2 lines are related throughout the poem which are introduced in the first stanza.

Question 3

Because their words had forked no lightning

Answer 3

Metaphorical, men aren’t ready to go yet because their words/ their learning has made no dramatic impact on the world, they resist death when they know they should accept it

Question 4

Good men, the last wave by, ‘crying’ how bright

Answer 4

Verb- suggests that the emotions of the men as they are dying are that they aren’t ready to grieve the fact that they could of had more time, the good they have done is not enough, it is too frail

Question 5

And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way

Answer 5

Caesura- emphasises the words ‘too late’ realise too late their their wild way of living has hastened their death

Question 6

Blind eyes ‘could blaze like meteors’ and be gay

Answer 6

Simile- the men realise that they could have achieved greater heights in life if they had enjoyed it more and been less serious

Question 7

Rage rage against the dying of the light

Answer 7

villanelle form with it’s related lines gives the poem a desperate insistent quality in its message to rage against death

Question 8

What tone does the poem conclude with?

Answer 8

Tone at beginning was angry- at the end of the poem it was ac plea to desist dying but deep down speaker knows death is inevitable and he is powerless in the face of it