![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Men, when approached with death, regardless of the life they have chosen to Into that good night” and “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” at theĮnd of each stanza in order to make the argument that all of these different Total stanzas in the poem (a full version of which you can read here):Īn opening, four middle stanzas – each discussing one of the four types of menĪpproaching death – and one concluding stanza in which he asks his father toĬonsider his argument and basically keep fighting for life.Ībout this poem is that Thomas might describe four different types of men withĭifferent motivations, but he repeats one of the two phrases “Do not go gently Might be approaching death: wise men, good men, wild men and grave men. Through various stanzas, four types of men (or people, I’d rather say) who Poet as an address to his aging, dying father, the speaker essentially tries toĬonvince his father to fight for life. However, as a lover of poetry, I wanted to find out more reasons why this particular poem might have been chosen. I could immediately understand that the use of this poem was to parallel the main characters’ struggle to fight for the survival of mankind that is the central plot of the film. When I heard Professor Brand recite the first two verses of this poem by Dylan Thomas in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, I actually got chills. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” ![]()
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