Reference to the context the poem of do not go into the gentle?

Do not go gentle into that good night was written by Dylan Thomas when his father was dying. Dylan's father had always had a fiery temper, but during his last illness he became weak and docile. Dylan found it hard to accept what death was doing to his father.

The poem says: Do not let death make you this quiet, passive, good-natured person that you have become. If you must die, face death as the independent, difficult man you always have been.

Dylan took his father's death very hard. Shortly after his father died, Dylan began a different poem: To proud for death. But he never finished it.

In fact Do not go gentle was the last important poem Dylan ever completed. Within a year he was himself dead.