![]() The image of the lightning bolt also continues the connection between light and life from the first stanza. Essentially, they haven't left enough of a legacy to last beyond death. Their "words"-their literal speech, but also their wisdom and artistic expression-have not "forked" lightning, meaning that they haven't been able to split a lightning bolt and redirect it, like a lightning rod. The metaphor of the night sky continues, with the speaker referring to death as “dark.” Yet even though death is natural, the speaker asserts that the wise do not readily accept it. ![]() ![]() Wise men, the narrator says, know that death is inevitable and even "right"-it is proper, perhaps, to die and allow the next generation to take its place. Though wise men at their end know dark is right/Because their words had forked no lightning they/Do not go gentle into that good night. ![]()
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