Raging Against the Dying of the Light – Unionism in Twilight

Raging Against the Dying of the Light – Unionism in Twilight

“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Dylan Thomas’s ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’ is one of my favourite poems. It is simply so very Human in how Thomas exhorts his subject not to yield to the inevitability of the end but to fight it, to go down kicking and screaming and in doing so assert a kind of unyielding dignity. He is telling you, scream…