"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
In this poem, the speaker is urging his father not to give in to death. Even though many "good" and "wise" men have accepted death, the speaker does not want his father to do so. He wants his father to fight to live. This is not like most of the poems we have read so far this year. Most say just the opposite. "Crossing the Bar," for instance, was all about how the speaker was embracing death. Some people can learn to accept death, but many struggle with the idea. I think it is harder to imagine some close to me dying than myself dying., and I think that partly accounts for the two different approaches to death.
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