Comparison of “Hamlet” and “Do not go gentle into that good night”

Do not go gentle into that good night is about the authors view on how death should be battled against and how he does not accept death willingly. The meter used is iambic pentameter which is the same as in Hamlet. However, the iambic pentameter degenerates in “Do not go gentle into that good night.” The first like contains ten syllables but from there the iambic pentameter degenerates. The iambic pentameter has a pattern of a heart beat that can’t symbolise a heart beat, representing life. In Hamlet the pentameter shows that death is inevitable and nobody has the power to stop it. However in the poem the iambic pentameter degenerating shows the idea of breaking the chains of being bounded by fate. It reinforces the idea of the first line as it means that there should be a struggle with death, do not go gentle into that good night, the good night symbolising death.