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Apr 26, 2024 · Explore the profound meaning behind Dylan Thomas' iconic poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" and how it relates to the human spirit's resilience.
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light. These are famous lines from a poem by Dylan Thomas. These lines are delivered multiple times by Dr. Brand in Interstellar. During the end of the movie, these lines are also seen engraved on a stone at the space station.
Here, the word "gentle" means "docile," or passive and without resistance. in other words, Thomas tells readers they should not accept death passively, but instead should fight (or "rage") against it ("the dying of the light").
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight. Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Do not go gentle into that good night. This is the part about the underground NASA and the Scientists (wise men) who works on Lasaruz project. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright. Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Good men, come on it the last wave by, crying how bright. Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.
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Jan 24, 2017 · His wife, Caitlin Macnamara, flew from England and spun into a drunken rage upon arriving at the hospital where the poet lay dying. After threatening to kill Brinnin, she was put into a straitjacket and committed to a private psychiatric rehab facility.
