“Don't Go Softly Into That Good Night” is an insightful poem written by Dylan Thomas, a poet who attempts to communicate the optimistic characteristics of aging. Using powerful poetic elements, he manages to effectively convince readers that life is worth living to the fullest. As a highly structured villanelle poem, Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" is a nineteen-line piece with five three-line stanzas and a four-line stanza at the end. Although most of the poem consists of an ABA rhyme scheme, the last stanza has an ABAA scheme. Furthermore, each of the lines contains a final rhyme that alternates between masculine and feminine; the masculine rhyme of “night” and “light” contrasts with the feminine rhyme of “day” and “they.” In consideration of the visuals, “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” contains many elements. The use of final points, repetition, similes, metaphors, symbolism, and personification encourages the underlying meaning of the poem. With the recurrence of words like “light” and “night” and phrases like “anger, anger against the death of the night”, Thomas completes his simile which reads “blind eyes could be like meteors and be gay”. With this simile, he compares a shooting star to eyes blazing with anger. Furthermore, the “dark is right” metaphor accompanies Thomas' widespread use of symbolism and personification. It also implies that death does not necessarily bring despair. To symbolize death, Thomas uses phrases such as “dying of the light” and “good night.” He also uses the words “sad height” to describe a deathbed. Personifying light and old age, the author writes of the “dying of the light” and that “old age should burn.” Finally, a powerful line from the poem, ... center of the paper ... phew, all four types of people lived different lives, they all came to the same life decisions. The poem “Do Not Go Gentle” into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas becomes deeply private near the end when the author calls his father and says, “curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.” That means he wants his father to fight while he still can. The poem describes many types of men, but ends with his father. This explains that he places his father in a separate category from the serious, wild, or good men discussed above. Dylan Thomas meticulously expresses every word of his poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" to support his underlying theme of the importance of experiencing life for as long as possible. Using influential literary elements and suitable vocabulary, Dylan Thomas commendably convinces the reader of his point of view.