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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night We often talk about love,but we rarely think about death.As long as human beings are alive,they always make every effort to avoid death.However, it can’t be denied that we have to face death.And the best way to face it is to make your every day count .Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,a poem in the form of a villanelle written by Dylan Thomas deeply impresses me.How do people treat death？We should let nature take its course or fight against death bravely ?In my opinion,death is not such a terrifying and sad thing,instead ,it is a part of a man’s life.we need to face it bravely and take it as a necessary process in life.Dylan Thomas’s poems show that everyone should face death,fight with it and accept it in the end. In the book Instincts and Their Vicissitudes,Freud Sigmund said:“Instincts is a kind of stimulation to the soul”He divided instincts into two types:life instinct and death instinct,the cooperation and rebellion between both two types lead to the phenomenon of life.and death is the final destination of human beings.In the Dylan Thomas’s poems,the writer calls for fighting with death and meanwhile he also eulogizes death.In his poem And Death Shall No Dominion,the poet writes : Dead men naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and the west moon; When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone, They shall have stars at elbow and foot; Though they go mad they shall be sane, Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.In this poem, the poet personifies the death and claims that death shall have no dominion,which indicates that the poet’s fearlessness towards death.The word “And” strongly shows the poet’s firm attitude.Dylan Thomas deprecates death and also admits the truth that the death will rise up again .Therefore,that is to say the poet subjectively accept the death .In the poem Fem Hill,the poet writes: And as