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Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight. Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.
One should not “go gentle” into the darkness but “rage” against the “dying of the light.” Despite this, the poet acknowledges that death is universal. There’s no way for someone to avoid death forever.
The poem is divided into five stanzas, each of which focuses on a different group of people who should not "go gentle into that good night." The first stanza addresses old men, who should burn and rave against the dying of the light.
Dying of the Light is a 2014 American spy film, written and directed by Paul Schrader. It stars Nicolas Cage as an ex- CIA agent suffering from dementia who is on a personal mission to track down and kill a terrorist who had tortured him two decades earlier.
Dec 5, 2014 · Dying of the Light: Directed by Paul Schrader. With Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin, Alexander Karim, Irène Jacob. When a devastating illness threatens to end Evan Lake's career in the C.I.A., he goes rogue to hunt down a terrorist who tortured him during a mission gone awry years ago.
Here, the word "gentle" means "docile," or passive and without resistance. in other words, Thomas tells readers they should not accept death passively, but instead should fight (or "rage") against it ("the dying of the light").
