09 Nov “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight” Responses
Respond with higher-order critical thinking to the following prompts about Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas.
- Do not go gentle into that good night is a villanelle: a fixed form originated by French courtly poets of the Middle Ages. What are its rules?
- Whom does the poem address? What is the speaker saying?
- Villanelles are sometimes criticized as elaborate exercises in trivial wordplay. How would you defend Thomass poem against this charge?
