Gentleness
I also propose that the voice we hear in “Do not go gentle” may not be a directly lyric speaker but an obliquely drawn persona, that of Gloucester’s son Edgar. Further, when read in the shadow cast by King Lear, the tone of Thomas’s poem grows dark indeed. “Do not go gentle into that good night” is addressed to Thomas’s father, David John, known as D. J. “Because I could not stop for Death” and “Do Not Go Gentle into This Good Night” are poems written by different authors in different time periods. “Because I could not stop for Death” is a poem written by Emily Dickinson in which death is personified. “Do Not Go Gentle into This Good Night” is poem written by Dylan Thomas in which confront death and the death of his father is recounted. Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go gentle into that good night” was influenced by William Butler Yeats’s “Lapis Lazuli” and William Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ but the villanelle bears a stronger resemblance to Shakespeare’s play. The attitudes toward how an indi