The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece
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The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece
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
coffee_with_keatsinstagram.comPoetry and the arts—like the right kind of prayer—can help us to stay with grief long enough to feel its sweetness, long enough for the sweetness and grief to deepen our sensitivity to the exquisite agony and ecstasy that we call appreciation, praise, love … and life. We will find or write and recite the poems and prayers that resonate most deeply
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