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

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