Death Unit 4

     There is one phrase that caught my attention in Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas and that is "do not go gentle into that good night, old age should urn and rave at close of day" (968).  I believe that good night represents death in this poem.  When I read that, my first thought was that it was saying that a person should not give up and die because it will happen when that person is old and ready.  This then made me think of all the people that have been killed or have killed themselves before they grew old.  It is sad to think about because we as people should never "go gentle into that good night".  People should not give up and let death take over because everyone has a purpose in life and each one of them needs to go fulfill that purpose.  I thought that this poem was just giving advice on why someone should not give up.  People make mistakes but they should never think that they should not have the right to live because of them. I know that there could be other possible meanings to the term "good night".  I believe that it represents death and the poem does a great job of helping explain it.