Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

"Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,

Rage, Rage against the dying of the light."

This poem is jam packed with repition.  The speaker is pleading with his father to not succumb to od age. He wants his father to live life to the fullest instead of just kicking back and giving up because he's older now With words like "rage" I can assume that the speaker doesn't want his father to go down without a fight.

I also noticed that the progression of the second line of each stanza parallels the progression of the latter years oflife. The elderly go from wise yet powerful, to frail and memorable, to grieving, and finally blind to the life around them.

This good night can not be too awesome. I think the good night implies the ignorance of old age. When one gives into being old, they also give up many aspirations and goals they had dreamed of achieving because they begin to simply wait for death all of the time. This son is just so emotional that he's desperate to see his father reject his age. The son is asking his father to be wise because good many are emotional, wild men miss out on the true essence of life, and grave men don't even experience life.