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‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ is a famous poem written by Dylan Thomas. It ends with the famous line, ‘Rage, rage against the dying of the light’ which concerns, not gu10 led bulbs, but the emotions one feels as they die.

The poem was inspired by Thomas’s father whom Thomas witnessed becoming frail with old age. Thomas wanted his father to fight against the death that was so imminent, and the poem revolves around the notion of dying fighting rather than accepting death. The first stanza reads as follows:
“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

Though death is unavoidable, men should fight it nonetheless. The poem also betrays the author’s own fear of death, and of just how little separates life from it. Thus Thomas calls for a reaction when one passes from life to death.