In Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," he depicts the inevitability of death through repetition and diction. Furthermore, he portrays the stages of man's life in his comparison to "good men, "wild men," and grave men." Finally, Thomas' medium of poetic expression presents itself in the villanelle. The villanelle's persona speaks in this poem as the son of a dying father. Line sixteen states "And you, my father,…" and this proves the …showed first 75 words of 3174 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3174 total…plea for his father to resist death until his dying breath. With the narrator’s careful choice of words and aggressive, passionate tone, he is able to provoke within the reader the very emotions the son is trying to release within his father. The writer sends a simple message to the father and to all men who will listen: “Do not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light.”