Do not go gentle

Question 1

Do not go gentle into that good night

Answer 1

Asking his father to not accept death passively

Question 2

Good night

Answer 2

Metaphorical euphemism for death

Question 3

Should

Answer 3

Modal verb fight and resist death

Question 4

Rave

Answer 4

Verb choices show anger and not to accept death

Question 5

Close of day; dying of light

Answer 5

Juxtaposition, light close of day, light symbolises life and closes symbolise death

Question 6

Rage rage

Answer 6

Repetition and refrain, angry and frustrated for his dads death

Question 7

Wise men

Answer 7

Morally good men

Question 8

Know dark is right

Answer 8

Understands death is inevitable

Question 9

Good men

Answer 9

Morally good men

Question 10

Forked no lightning

Answer 10

Metaphor, because their learning has made no impact dramatically they resist death when they know they should accept it

Question 11

Last wave

Answer 11

Metaphor, their last breath before death last moments

Question 12

Mood stanza 3

Answer 12

Regret and guilt

Question 13

Might

Answer 13

Regret they feel they could have done more good I’m world

Question 14

Tone

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Sad negative

Question 15

Crying how bright

Answer 15

They grieve the fact they could do more good and let everything out for last time

Question 16

Danced in a Green Bay

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Personification, the good they have done isnt enough it’s too frail

Question 17

Frail

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Adjective their goodness goes unnoticed

Question 18

Wild men

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Men who are carefree and live life to excess

Question 19

Sang the sun

Answer 19

Sibilance and alliteration, emphasises that they like to seize the day and live in the moment

Question 20

And learn, too late,

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Caesura emphasises the words too late realising their wild living hastened their death

Question 21

Sun in flight

Answer 21

Allusion to Icarus implies men’s wildness can be dangerous

Question 22

Do not go gentle into that good night

Answer 22

Refrain shows him begging towards his father

Question 23

Grave men

Answer 23

Serious with connotations of dying, word play

Question 24

Blinding sight

Answer 24

Oxymoron, they see with dazzling clarity that they could have lived a different life

Question 25

Blind eyes could blaze like meteors

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Simile, they realise they could have achieved greater heights in life if they had enjoyed it more and been less serious Alliteration, assonance, creates a tone of regret

Question 26

Structure final stanza

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There’s a shift to direct address to his father

Question 27

My father

Answer 27

He’s come to terms his father will die contrasting beginning Possessive pronoun shows their close emotional bond

Question 28

Sad height

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Metaphorical as hid father approached death he looks back on life through heightened perspective Adjective refers to speakers sadness of fathers imminent death

Question 29

Curse, bless

Answer 29

Imperative verbs, just want his father to show some emotional response and not passively wait death

Question 30

End stopped lines final stanza

Answer 30

Slows the pace suggests speaker realises his fathers death is inevitable

Question 31

I pray

Answer 31

Religious semantic field , speaker realises only god has control over fathers death now, he has no control This is crux of problem as speaker is mad at himself as he is so powerless

Question 32

Rage, rage against the dying of light

Answer 32

Beginning of poem: angry End: a plea to resist dying but he knows it’s inevitable

Question 33

Ending structure

Answer 33

Villanelle form with its repeated lines showing his desperate quality in his fathers death