In this essay you explore how the poets use of poetic techniques conveys the messages of the poem.

"Do not go Gentile into that Good Night" by Dylan Thomas was a poem that made me think about death in a different way, in particular that we shouldn't just accept death, but try and resist it. The poem is about a man trying to tell his dying father not to die up and die, but to get up and fight to live. The son also shows his father different ways in which other men have resisted death. The poet's use of metaphors, similes, oxymoron, personification, symbolism and the unusual form of the poem all helped me to see death in a different light.
The first thing that helped me to think about dea…