Read The Excerpt From Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. Wild Men Who Caught And Sang The Sun In Flight, And Learn, Too Late, They Grieved It On Its Way, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. Grave Men, Near Death, Who See With Blinding Sight Blind Eyes Could Blaze Like Meteors And Be Gay, Rage, Rage Against The Dying Of The Light. And You, My Father, There On The Sad Height, Curse, Bless, Me Now With Your Fierce Tears, I Pray. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. Rage, Rage Against The Dying Of The Light. Which Statement Best Describes The Effect Of The Refrains In This Excerpt? The Refrains Highlight The Love Between A Father And A Son. The Refrains Reveal That The Speaker Will Soon Pass Away. The Refrains Emphasize The Importance Of Resisting Death. The Refrains Reinforce The Inevitability Of Death For Everyone.

The poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas is a poem about death. The narrator of the poem is experiencing the death of his father, which we see in the last stanza, or group of lines. Witnessing the death of his father makes the speaker think about death in a more general way. The refrains "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" emphasize the importance of resisting death and fighting fiercely against it . The speaker emphasizes that older men should fight fiercely and strongly against death .