Do not go gentle into that good night
- Mirana Mei
- Mar 7, 2021
- 2 min read
This is one of my projects for Designing Interfaces For Live Performance. For this one, I created a audio piece for the poem Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. Please listen and read the poem at the same time.
Here’s a link for the video performance to read the poem and listen to the audio at the same time.
I had never watched the film Interstellar, so I made this audio mainly depend on my own point of view of this poem. For me, this poem is romantic but repressive, with a sense of wistful rage and stubborn. To my surprised, my audience has a different understanding with me but we all agree that this piece is suitable for the poem. I guess this is what we called There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes.
Do not go gentle into that good night Dylan Thomas- 1914-1953
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.
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.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Here's the audio file of my piece.
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