DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT. The most anthologized example of a villanelle in the English language, the poem from Interstellar, one of literature's most deliciously quotable pieces and Dylan Thomas's cry to his dying father not to peacefully accept his coming death. We may ask though, who is the poet really trying to convince? His father, or himself?
Dr. Andrew Barker provides a sentence by sentence analysis and explanation of this legendary poem, and examines the complexities that have contributed to its popularity.
Thomas's work is often difficult to paraphrase but not impossible, and this lecture provides "a way in" to a difficult but often rewarding poet.
The lecture also explains the villanelle, a construction-specific poetic form, which Thomas chooses to use in this justifiably famous work.
Andrew Barker
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