Do Not Go Gentle into The Good Night

By repeating the first and third lines of the poem, the speaker describes different types of people who are dying. Wise men, although they know that death is inevitable, "do not go gentle into that good night" because there is still a lot of things to learn and teach on earth. Good men fight against the night because they see how good their life is on earth and don't want to leave it. Therefore, they "rage against the dying of the light." Wild men play around and waste their lives. When they realize the end is near, they also "do not go gentle into that good night." Grave men who are about to die "rage against the dying of the light" because they don't want to give into death. All of these men serve as examples to the speaker's father. The speaker wants his father to not die and to fight against the "dying of light." The repetition of the lines serve to emphasize the different meanings and interpretations that a reader can grasp.