On Thursday we read the poem "Do not go Gentle Into that Good Night" by Dylan Thomas. Honestly it was a pretty hard poem to understand. It wasn't that the meaning was hard to get a grasp on, it was about how the father should not give up his fight against death but when it was divided up into different sections some of the comparisons were odd to me. Especially the section my group got, for example, was the mention of singing and chasing the sun literal or did it mean something metaphorically.
Nonetheless, it made me think a lot about how hard it is to accept that at one point everyone is going to die. The son did not want his father to give up the fight but sometimes the fight is just too hard. It made me think about my grandfather who died of cancer, he did "rage, rage against the dying of the light" but death is just something you have to accept but not give into to.
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