Although I haven't been to class last Wednesday, and I know "Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night" was dissected, I still want to give a general comment about it.
It is one of the only poems where I feel the overall message almost obliterates the little subtleties from within the poem completely. Each stanza talks about different kinds of people who are facing death (wise men, good men, grave men, etc.) but since there is such a strong common denominator they don't really stick out individually.
The prospect of the inevitability of death plagues all humans uniformly. The different kinds of circumstances each one of us faces at the end, doesn't really change all that much in terms of the nature of experience. Dylan Thomas tries to convey, from my standpoint, that everyone should live life to its fullest. It's a modified "Carpe Diem." The "rage" is really a quiet rebellion against death. What we do in life is the full expression of that rage. If we "go gentle," meaning we just wait for death, then we squander life. If we live life to its fullest, we do the best we can with our situation.
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