![]() ![]() The earliest use of the phrase that I have found is from the review by Richard M. ![]() (The publication details are from the website Dylan Thomas.)ĭylan Thomas’s phrase has been misquoted as Do not go gently into that good night-as in the obituary of the poet, published in the Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California) of 10 th November 1953:Īmong his best-known poems is “ Do Not Go Gently into that Good Night.” It expresses the need for a purposeful and positive attitude toward death, rather than a defeatist one. Dent & Sons Ltd.), published on 10 th November 1952. – In Country Sleep and Other Poems (New York: New Directions), published on 28 th February 1952 in a limited signed edition of 100 copies, followed by a trade edition Rage, rage against the dying of the light.įirst published in Botteghe Oscure: quaderno VIII, II semestre 1951 (Roma: Arnoldo Mondadori), Do not go gentle into that good night appeared in 1952 in two collections of poems by Dylan Thomas: ![]() Old age should burn and rave at close of day It alludes to Do not go gentle into that good night, used as the title of, and in, a poem by the Welsh poet Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914-53)-this is the first stanza: The phrase (not) to go gentle into that good night, also (not) to go gently into that good night, means (not) to give up or acquiesce, especially to death, without a struggle. ![]()
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