"Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night"

"Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" by Dylan Thomas is a poem about a son's reaction and feelings about his father dying. The father is still alive but has given up fighting to live and the son wants his father to keep fighting to live, "Rage, rage against the dying of the light"(line 3). The father used to be strong and the son looked up to him and now the father is dying and weak and it is hard for the son to see him like that, "And you, my father, there on the sad height,/ Curse, bless, me now wiht your fierce tears, I pray"(16,17). The son isn't ready to let his father go yet but the father is tired and is ready to let go and pass on. It is a struggle many people will face, losing a loved one that they are not ready to let go of.