In this essay you explore how the poets use of poetic techniques conveys the messages of the poem.

"Do not go Gentile into that Good Night" by Dylan Thomas was a poem that made me think about death in a different way, in particular that we shouldn't just accept death, but try and resist it. The poem is about a man trying to tell his dying father not to die up and die, but to get up and fight to live. The son also shows his father different ways in which other men …

…repetition helps to put forward the message of the poem and creates the idea that this is not the first time the son has had this conversation with his father, and has told him the same thing over and over. In conclusion, the poet's use of metaphors, similes, oxymoron, personification, symbolism and unusual poetic form all helped me to think about death in a different light and also to understand the message of the poem.