Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

This poem is a villanelle by the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas (1914-1953). The poem was written in 1947, and is a kind of clarion call for a defiant spirit in the face of death. I first heard the poem in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ (2014), in which it serves as a powerful symbol for the strength of humanity, its willingness to survive and endure... See more