Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.
No one wants to lose a loved one especially not a parent. When we are young we think that our parents will be there for us forever as if they have some special powers of immortality. However, this is not the case in the least bit. No matter who it is, it's hard to imagine our parents weakening in their age and even letting go of them into the spirit realm. Dylan Thomas shows this point in the poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night." Thomas describes different types of men who are not ready to go gently into the state of death. Wise men fight off death. Good men deny the reaper his spoils, wild men do not relinquish life to the dark. Grave men are unwilling to let go of their lives also. Using examples of others who are not ready for their time to go, Dylan Thomas tries to convince his father not to give up on life either.
Wise men with their knowledge know that death is inevitable in the end. They still fight off death because they are not done in this world as of yet. Their words had forked no lightning, "As life lightning wise men known to have powerful, shrinking, and brilliant things to comment on. When a wise man talks, people listen. These wise men have not yet left an impression on anyone or the world, so they do not except their end.
Good men too, deny the reaper for the time being. "Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay," the deeds they tried to accomplish seemed to be unsubstantial for the time being, but someday they could mean something to someone. Classic poetry where I had received some ideas also say that: denied in a green bay refers to their deeds shining bright like the sun off the watery bay surface. These men too fight off death.
Wild men, who wasted their days just having fun and not really appreciating anything around them are not ready to die either. Now that they realize that the end is near they fight it off and beg to absorb all that is around them.