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A 4 page paper analyzing, in detail, Dylan Thomas' great work, which has been called 'the finest villanelle ever written.' No additional works cited.
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importance and interest in appreciating the poem as a whole. It is often suggested that "the sad height" is a bier, but probably only by those who have not read
carefully. For Thomas to advise his father not to "go gentle" if he were already dead, as he would be if he were lying in his coffin on a
bier, would be redundant; redundancy is not a hallmark of Dylan Thomas. His emotion must have a much fiercer and more complex object. He is advocating active resistance
to death immediately before death, not sadly mourning after it. Moreover, how can Thomas expect his father to curse and bless him with his tears if he is dead?
Dead men do not weep. And finally, what sense can the bier interpretation make of the word "the" in "the sad height"? The definite article immediately suggests a
single and integral meaning for "the sad height," as in "the sky," and it could only have such a meaning if the phrase had a familiar conventional or metaphorical meaning,
such as "the daily grind," which means "job, " or "at the end of the day," which means "final analysis." Perhaps part of the haunting power of the phrase
derives from the fact that it seems as if it had a familiar or conventional meaning. One might be tempted to try a nonliteral interpretation, noting how here Thomas
perhaps turned to the Bible for imagery and allusion. In this case, the origin of lines 16 and 17 could be the book of Deuteronomy. There is the
offer of life and death (ch. 30); curses and blessings (27-30); the relationship between Moses and his "son" Joshua and the implied anger of the father (31); and the death
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