Thursday, July 26, 2012



DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO
THAT GOOD NIGHT

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.




For poetry lovers everwhere: Shelley's masterpiece -
Ye Are Many. They Are Few. -- from "The Mask of Anarchy"


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7 26  I don't know how I could have missed it for so long: sleep is death.  This accounts for the schedule of the demon's appearance.  Consider also commonplace expressions like he was dragged "kicking and screaming" to the gallows.  The Dylan Thomas poem says it with amazing clarity, and I have long loved this poem.

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