Dylan Thomas’ poem and Hamlet can be seen as comparable as they both seem to focus around the theme of death, the scene in Hamlet i would want to focus on is Act1 Scene 5 where Hamlet is confront is father, Old Hamlet’s ghost. Thomas’ poem is his way of expressing himself and telling his own dying father to hold on and fight, you can tell it is his father as he say in the first line of the final stanza ‘And you, my father’ he is afraid to lose him as he repeats ‘do not go gentle into the night’. he tells him to keep fighting when he repeats ‘rage, rage, against the dying of the light’. Thomas focuses a lot on using the terms light and night and anything else related such as dark, day, sun etc. Hamlet’s father is already dead so he cannot give these words of encouragement, however his father requests from him to take revenge for his death. He excessively describes death and uses negative vocabulary such as ‘doom’d for a certain term to walk the night’ and ‘for the day confined to fast in fires’. This gives Hamlet insight for what death is like, which will eventually lead to the later soliloquy and he intends to take revenge on the one responsible for subjecting his father to the endless life (afterlife) of torment. Both Hamlet and Thomas seek to do right by their fathers whether it is to take revenge on someone or to stay by their side and help with their own fight, it seems pretty clear what makes these two the same yet still different.