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A short critique on Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

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A short critique on Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Abstract

As a prominent representative of the Neo-romantic movement in the 1940s, Dylan Thomas, with his poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” (1952), presents his thoughts on the phenomenon of death. Contrary to the main idea in other death-themed poems, this poem depicts that though death’s inevitability is known, one should not accept death all at once. Instead, people should fight to get as much time from death as possible. Even though Thomas’s advice encourages resistance to death, it contains some uncertainty about how this resistance should be. How and why does a human try to take time off death, knowing that the impending doom will come sooner or later? Moreover, Thomas has been said to produce this poem for the sake of his ill father, and this makes difficult to recognize the audience he intended. Has the poem been written to uplift his dying father? Or is it for Thomas’ readers to know the poet’s thoughts on death? Accordingly, this paper has been prepared to examine the implications in the tercets in-depth to investigate Thomas’s approach to the concept of death, and to shed light on Thomas’s target group with his poem. The study reveals that the failures and regrets, which are highlighted by Thomas to refuse the death, are insufficient to motivate people to stay more on earth.

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Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Dilbilim

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yayımlanma Tarihi

21 Ağustos 2021

Gönderilme Tarihi

26 Temmuz 2021

Kabul Tarihi

20 Ağustos 2021

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2021 Sayı: Ö9

Kaynak Göster

APA
Kayaaltı, M. (2021). A short critique on Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, Ö9, 229-335. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.984784