wild men, regardless of character, deserves the opportunity to live into old age and accomplish what they set out to do. And the wise men, who regret the fact that they didnt do the good deeds they were set out to do, and realizing that it was too late for them to do it. Thomas realizes it is human nature to take life for granted; until death approaches. Thomas wrote this poem for his father, to tell him that there is so much more for him here, living, to do. The only way to deter death is through fury and frenzy. Death comes too quickly for most people and only with rage can death be defied.Here is a discussion of how the sound and metrics of the poem help convey that meaning. In the face of strong emotion, the poet sets himself the task of mastering it in difficult form of villanelle. Five tercets are followed by a quatrain, with the first and last line of stanza repeated alternately as the last line of the subsequent stanzas and gathered into a couplet at the end of the quatrain. And all this on only two rhymes. His villanelle repeates the theme of living and fury through the most forceful two lines, do not go gentle into that good night, and rage, rage against the dying of the light. Thomas further compounds his difficulty by having each line contain 10 syllables. Also, the alliteration in Do not go gentle into that good night, and the repetition of the word rage, in Rage, rage against the dying of the light, further compounds Thomass fury towards death and to not go gentle into that good night.Here is how the tone develops the meaning of the poem. The poets word choices shows the tone or attitude of the poet towards his subject matter, his audience, or himself, or the emotional meaning of the poem. For example, he could have chosen such words as, Dont give into... but instead he used rage, which lends tone of aggressiveness. He further compounds his aggressiveness, by repeating the same word in the same sentence, r...
