Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

In Dylan Thomas's Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, the speaker focuses on four types of men. The first, wise men, realize their life is at an end. However, they fight aganist this departure because they realize they have yet to make any lasting impact on the world they are leaving. The second type, good men, mourn for the good deeds that will never be accomplished due to their death. The third type of me are wild, who spent their lifetime frivolously. They fight death because they realize how much time the recklessly wasted. The last type of men are grave, who have taken life too seriously. Their realisation is of all the fun they never got to experience.

Although the speaker details how each men lived thier lives completely different, they all dealt with death exactly the same. No man thought he was ready for death. Each many resisted, for they believed there was still more for them to do. The real tragedy was that the men could not have come to their respective realisations sooner, as no one's time on this earth is unlimited.