Don't walk gently into that good night
Don't walk gently into that good night,
Old age should burn and roar at dusk;
Rage, rage against the disappearance of light.
Although wise men understand the truth of darkness when they are dying,
Because their words didn't come in and send out lightning bolts, they did
Nor did he walk into that good night gently.
Good people, when the last wave passes, chant their fragile good deeds
How gloriously might have danced in the green bay,
The furious man caught and sang the soaring sun,
Understand, but it is too late, and they make the sun sad on the way,
Serious people, close to death, are seen with dazzling vision
The blind heel can shine like a shooting star,
Rebuke, rebuke the disappearance of the light.
You, my Father, are on that high place of sorrow.
Curse me now with your tears and bless me. I beg you
Don't walk gently into that good night.
Poetry is life, welcome to the "Caotang Reading Poetry" jointly launched by Cover News, Chengdu Radio and Television Station and Caotang Poetry Magazine, I am the reader juanzi. What you have just heard is Dylan Thomas's poem "Don't Walk Gently into That Good Night", translated by Wu Ningkun. Dylan Thomas is a famous English writer and poet. In 1946 he published one of the most important collections of poems of his life, Death and Appearance, which was widely regarded by critics as another important British poet after Auden. On November 9, 1953, he died violently of drinking too much alcohol at the age of thirty-nine.
Dylan grew up frail and sickly, and many times he was bedridden at home. Most of the time, he can only spend it alone by reading. Sickness and loneliness make this sensitive child both eager for warmth and willful rebellion. Dylan, who went to school, was at odds with school life, and he had only one friend, Daniel, who wrote poems together and then read them aloud on his "private radio station." Until he left school at the age of 16, his grades still did not improve. By virtue of his father's connections, he became a proofreader for the South Wales Post, and after that, he became a reporter covering local news, traveling day after day at weddings, funerals, fire scenes... More often than not, he soaks in bars, drinks and talks, smearing inspiration on whatever piece of paper he can find and copying it later into a workbook— he is convinced that he was born a poet.
"Don't Walk Gently into That Good Night" is a poem by Dylan Thomas written in the mid-20th century, when his father, dying, had given up the hope of living and was ready to leave this world quietly. Dylan Thomas had a deep affection for his father, and his path to literature can be said to have a lot to do with his father, who was a teacher of English literature. His father had dreamed of becoming a poet, and when Dylan was a child, he used to read Shakespeare to Dylan in his study, and although Dylan did not understand its meaning at all, the rhythm penetrated deep into his heart. Dylan hopes that the poem "Don't Walk Gently into That Good Night" will evoke his father's fighting spirit to overcome death and not give up any hope of living. The whole poem is filled with night and day, darkness and light, gentleness and fury, death and life, and the language is full of tension. The poet exhorts people in a fierce tone not to obey fate and not to give up the hope of living. He himself is not like this, he never shys away from death, he does not fear death. Believing that he would not live long, he claimed to create an "urgent Dylan", so he spent his whole life shrouded in urgent and deep sorrow, and eventually became a poet who "does not live without madness".
Poetry is life, "grass hall reading poetry", there is temperature, there is texture. Dylan Thomas's poem "Don't Walk Gently into That Good Night" and the poet's story are here today, thanks for the attention, we will see you in the next issue.
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