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Name: Rebecca Finley Date: 9/23/19 Unit 2 Lesson 3: “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” 1) How many stanzas appear in the poem? What kinds of stanzas are they? 5 three line stanzas known as tercets and one quatrain. 2) What refrain is used in the poem? “rage rage against the dying of the night” “do not go gentle into that good night” 3) What is the poem’s rhyme scheme? ABA-ABAA 4) What is the poem’s meter? Iambic pentameter 5) Identify an example of the following literary elements in the poem. Alliteration: “Do not go gentle into that good night” Assonance: Long A sound in line two. Metaphor: “Blind eyes could blaze like meteors” Personification: Line 8 “deeds might have danced” 6) Who is the speaker in the poem? Dylan Thomas 7) What is happening in the poem? His father is dying and he is telling him to fight his death and hold onto every little bit of life.
8) What is the speaker’s position on the situation in the poem? He is the son of the father which is dying. 9) What is the poem’s theme? Reject and fight against death. 10) What lines in the poem express or underscore its theme? The last line he says “rage rage against the dying of the light.”
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Unformatted text preview:Personification: Line 8 "deeds might have danced" 6) Who is the speaker in the poem? Dylan Thomas 7) What is happening in the poem? His father is dying and he is telling him to fight his death and hold onto every little bit of life. 8) What is the speaker's position on the situation in the poem? He is the son of the father which is dying. 9) What is the poem's theme? Reject and fight against death. 10) What lines in the poem express or underscore its theme? The last line he says "rage rage against the dying of the light."