Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Flashcards
Meaning
Narrator urges his father to not die easily
Structure
Villanelle
Two Refrain
Iambic pentameter
End-stops
Direct adress
Parallelism between stanzas
Villanelle
-poem follows this structure rigidly, mirroring the rigidity that is life and then death
-also shows the stead fast nature of the narrators wishes
Two refrains
-do not… rage rage… are repeated at the end of each stanza alternately and both on the last stanza
-emphasises the point that the speaker is trying to make
Iambic pentameter
-beats, like a heart
-feels firm and strong, like the narrators is attempting to encourage his dad with confidence
End stops
Show that to his father rage rage… do not go gentle… is a command, in the other stanzas he talks about throw these meant do both, and so his father wouldn’t want to not be wise for example
Direct adress
Make the poem seem intimate, though we are here reading it, we are not relevant, because it is simply a moment shared between father and son
Imagery
-simile of meteors- eternal celestial bodies, but mentores burn bright and then pass leaving darkness
-scenes of defiance
-symbolism of burning and raging as passion and resistance
Language
Plosive alliteration
Euphemisms
Oxymoron
Personification of death and light
Conossance
Fricative alliteration (f)
Juxtaposition
Epizeuxis
Spondee
Plosive alliteration
Blind, blaze
Strength and power sounding
Oxymoron
Blinding sight
-see so much, realise everything, and they rage rage…
Personification of death and light
Death- makes it seem more imposing, instead of just the lack of life death is a bad thing when personified
Light- dying of the light, seem sad, as death is a sad thing
Consonance
Rage, burn, rave, ‘r’ sound is repeated, feels encouraging
Spondee
Stressed syllables next to eachother, rage rage, feels powerful
