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The speaker in the poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" is pleading with his father not to accept death peacefully but to fight against it ("rage, rage against the dying of the light"). He urges his father to fight death fiercely like a wise man fighting with "forked lightning" or a wild man who "sang the sun in flight." The speaker wants his father to resist death vigorously instead of going gently into the good night of death.
- Author
- April J. Rivera
- Language
- EN