Do not go gentle into that good night

Do not go gentle into that good night is a poem in the form of a villanelle of the Welsh writer Dylan Thomas, which was first published in 1951 in the Botteghe Oscure, but then subsequently appeared in many anthologies, such as in In Country Sleep.

Over time, the poem became one of the most famous, if not the most printed most of Thomas ' who had written it himself for his dying father. In this sense, the poem, which despair and grief over a personal loss is treated.

A German transmission Curt Meyer- Clason procured under the German title Do not go left into that good night. This translation retained rhyme scheme and form.

The Welsh musician John Cale has set the poem on his 1989 album erschienem Words for the Dying.