“Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” 1) How many stanzas appear in the poem? What kinds of stanzas are they? 2) What refrain is used in the poem? 3) What is the poem’s rhyme scheme? 4) What is the poem’s meter? 5) Identify an example of the following literary elements in the poem. Alliteration: Assonance: Metaphor: Personification: 6) Who is the speaker in the poem? 7) What is happening in the poem? 8) What is the speaker’s position on the situation in the poem? 9) What is the poem’s theme? 10) What lines in the poem express or underscore its theme?
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Answer:
Its first five stanzas are each tercets, which are three lines long. Its final stanza is four lines, a quatrain. In the first stanza, lines 1 and 3 establish the poem's refrains, or repeating lines. The first line of the poem repeats at the end of stanzas 2 and 4, and as the second-to-last line of the poem.
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Explanation:
1) How many stanzas appear in the poem? What kinds of stanzas are they?
6, 5 tercets, and 1 quatrain
2) What refrain is used in the poem?
"Rage, rage, against the dying of the light, do not go gentle into that good night."
3) What is the poem’s rhyme scheme?
ABA in the first 5 stanzas and ABAA in the last one.
4) What is the poem’s meter?
Iambic pentameter
5) Identify an example of the following literary elements in the poem.
Alliteration: the repetition of the G sound in "do not go gentle into that good
night”
Assonance: "Old age should burn and rave at close of day" line 2
Metaphor: "Dying of the light"
Personification: "wild man who caught and sang the sun in flight" line 10
6) Who is the speaker in the poem?
A man whose father is dying.
7) What is happening in the poem?
The speaker is wanting his father to fight against death with every ounce of strength he
has.
8) What is the speaker’s position on the situation in the poem?
His father is about to die and he's trying to help him fight as best as he can, he doesn't
want to lose his father.
9) What is the poem’s theme?
The theme is to not just reject death but to fight against it.
10) What lines in the poem express or underscore its theme?
"Rage, rage, against the dying of the light, do not go gentle into that good night."