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Multimedia Poetry

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By Riley Griffiths

March 2020

Title:Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas is a poem about how he thinks that one should not fear death. Dylan's phrase "Do not go gentle into that good night" refers to his thought that one should fight against death but not be scared for they will have more success the longer they survive.

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"Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas is a villanelle poem. Villanelle form is a form of poetry that consist of 19 lines and a fixed form with 5 tercets and a quatrain, it rhymes using only two different sounds.

Figurative language #1

One of the many sound devices Dylan used in this poem is the use of "light" and "night". When Dylan says light he is referring to life and when using night he is referencing darkness to death, the author is using metaphors.

Read this stanza taken from "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas

“Though wise men at their end know dark is right,

Because their words had forked no lightning they

Do not go gentle into that good night.”

Figurative langauge #2

Read how Dylan uses a hyperbole in his writing:

"their words had forked no lightning" This is a hyperbole because he exagerates how the words don't have meaning and are useless.

Another figurative language example used by the speaker is a hyperbole. A hyperbole is when an author exagerates something and is not meant to be taken literally.

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