It was first published in 1951, two years before the poet’s own death at age 39.
The rigid form, a villanelle, suggests the poet’s attempts to control his passionate emotions. It is one of the most famous villanelles in the English language. The poem urges the older man not to give up and yield to the final ‘night’ of death. A poem Dylan Thomas dedicated to his father, David John Thomas, a militant man who had been strong in his youth, but who weakened with age and by his eighties had become blind.
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