Do not go gentle into that good night

The experience I'm offering you here is still audio, but it's a little different than usual.
We don't have the habit of reading poetry. The Anglo-Saxons, however, do, and it's a great thing, especially when the authors themselves read.
Recently (2006), Salon.com put the entire Caedmon Collection online, a series of recordings made between 1952 and 1953, in which Dylan Thomas reads a vast selection of his own poetry and prose, along with some passages from his favorite authors, including Shakespeare, Milton, Eliot, Auden, Hardy, Lawrence, Graves, and his friend Vernon Watkins.
From this collection, here is the very famous “Do not go gentle into that good night”, dedicated to his dying father, read by Dylan Thomas himself.
Dylan Thomas's vocal delivery is clear and direct, very powerful, but with many expressive nuances. Moreover, his readings were very crowded and people remained outside the theaters or cinemas where the poet performed, due to lack of seats.

Listen to Dylan Thomas

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.

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