What do you do to "rage against the dying of the light"?

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Making something? Going somewhere? Helping someone or some cause? Telling someone(s) how they are wrong and where they can stick that thought?
 

Trying my best not to rage at all. I had the main caretaking of 2 biological and (altogether) 3 elderly step parents who, all but one, made that hard job even harder by their "raging against the dying of the light."
 

Dylan Thomas... very meaningful and one of his best.
My answer? No idea, but the song "Yesterday When I Was Young" is going through my mind now...
Best lines from it:
"I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out
And I never stopped to think what life was all about"

So I guess my answer would be that I'm trying to stop and think what life is all about.
 
CallMeKate said:
Dylan Thomas... very meaningful and one of his best.
My answer? No idea, but the song "Yesterday When I Was Young" is going through my mind now...
Best lines from it:
"I ran so fast that time and youth at last ran out
And I never stopped to think what life was all about"

So I guess my answer would be that I'm trying to stop and think what life is all about.
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Yeah, but yesterday, the taste of life was sweet, like rain upon my tongue.
 
I have always understood to "rage against the dying of the light" refers to the will not to give up as death draws closer. In that context, I see "rage" as the determination to be who you are and have always been despite the advancing years. (y)
 
"I knew a man, his brain was so small
He couldn't think of nothing at all
Not the same as you and me
He doesn't dig poetry
He's so unhip that when you say Dylan
He thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas
Whoever he was
The man ain't got no culture
But it's alright, ma, everybody must get stoned."

Lyrics from
A Simple Desultory Philippic
Song by Simon & Garfunkel, 1965

 
Murrmurr said:
Yeah, but yesterday, the taste of life was sweet, like rain upon my tongue.
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'Twas indeed. Perhaps the time has come for me to pay for yesterday... when I was young. Sheesh, I need to go look for a cheerful thread... I won't even be 70 for years yet and right now I'm feeling as if I'm one step over. Start a thread with something happy and positive, Frank! :giggle: @Murrmurr 🎶🎼🎹One toke over the line.... make it stop!
 
Trish said:
I have always understood to "rage against the dying of the light" refers to the will not to give up as death draws closer. In that context, I see "rage" as the determination to be who you are and have always been despite the advancing years. (y)
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"Wise men at their end know dark is right."

Then it goes on to say they; the wise, I assume; do not go gentle into that good night, but that never made sense to me. If they know the dark is right, why wouldn't they go gentle-like?
 
Brighten the light, you can't stop it fading,
but you can try slowing it a bit, refuse to
be sick and keep on the go!

Remember when we were young, we were
invincible and could do anything without a
thought about safety in many cases, then
along came the evidence, wrinkles, grey hair,
stiff back, but they are all signs of experience,
not that you are finished.

There used to be a saying, "God loves a tryer".

Mike.
 
Murrmurr said:
"Wise men at their end know dark is right."

Then it goes on to say they; the wise, I assume; do not go gentle into that good night, but that never made sense to me. If they know the dark is right, why wouldn't they go gentle-like?
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I always took "know it's right" to mean that it can't be avoided... but then right away he says to fight it... like all the stanzas do.
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.
 
Murrmurr said:
"Wise men at their end know dark is right."

Then it goes on to say they; the wise, I assume; do not go gentle into that good night, but that never made sense to me. If they know the dark is right, why wouldn't they go gentle-like?
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We studied this at college and I may be completely wrong but, I always thought that the reference about their words having forked no lightning, means that they still fight the unavoidable, (even though they are wise enough to know death is inevitable), because they know their lives had no impact on the world.

I am glad this came up because I now want to dig that out and read it again! :)
 
CallMeKate said:
I always took "know it's right" to mean that it can't be avoided... but then right away he says to fight it... like all the stanzas do.
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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@CallMeKate's post is a better explanation than mine (y)
 

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