This poem displays the ambiguous feelings must people have towards death and also the eventual unwillingness that all men experience upon their time. This unwillingness is highlighted by the repetition of "rage, rage against the dying of the light" or "Do not go gentle into that good night" (Thomas 968). The narrator speaks of how all men: wise men, good men, wild men, and grave men, no matter how their outlook may be on life or death previously, all resist death. The wise man knows that death is eventual and right, however, they fight death. The good man who looks back towards all his good deeds and impacts, when faced with death, he shall rage, rage against the dying light. This contradiction of how all men feel about death, is present with the narrator as he tells the story. He speaks of death as the good night and says that it is right, however, we witness the same process with him as he diminishes these thoughts on his father's deathbed. Although he has spoken of how death is expected and right, he tells his father to fight off death at the end of the poem.
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