April 15, 2016
The title of the poem make people think at first that the poem is a love romantic one but the poem is said to be written about the poet's dying father, who die in the year 1952."Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light."The first stanza advises the abstract aged one possibly listening not to go gentle into their night (their death). He believes that old age is supposed...
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Professor Remi Raji wrote this poem in marking of World AIDS day which is on the 1st December. The whole five unequal stanza poem aims to warm or caution against unsafe and unprotected love making which "night" in the poem symbolizes. The first stanza of the poem describes how someone can become a victim of AIDS through kiss and switching off the light to engage in an unsafe intercourse. The second stanza speaks of where someone can become a victim...
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