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Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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Into that Good Night means into death. This is an example of symbolism, or using something concrete to represent a more complex or abstract idea, with the phrase do not go gentle into that Good Night, the speaker declares that people should not go easily or gently into death, which other lines from the poem reinforced the idea of fighting back against death. Note that in these lines and throughout the poem, thomas draws on the opposition of dark and light. He contrasts night and darkness with words like bright, sun, blinding meteor and burned. If Knight is a symbol of death, then what could light symbolize?