“Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” obviously, due to its villanelle structure, includes much of this. From verse to verse “Do not go softly into that good night” and “Anger, anger against the dying of the light” are repeated numerous times. These echoing pleas dominate the work and seem to alert the reader that Thomas has experienced something much deeper in his relationship with death than they have. He warns against something he seems to know all too well (Napierkowski, Ruby). Furthermore, he continues this in “The Almanac of Time” when he adds “of time” in multiple lines such as “The almanac of time hangs…”, “The word of time lies…”, and “The seed of time is protected… ” (lines 1, 11, 12). Through these examples, Thomas once again reveals his understanding of the effects of time on man and its ever-present continuity through the verbs that follow the phases that most closely describe time as stationary. This means that time will always flow at a continuous pace and will never falter. Finally, with “This is Remembered” “This is Remembered…” is repeated a few times during the piece. Although not as consistently as in “Do not go gentle into that good night,” Thomas intersperses the phrase just enough to give pause to the poem and make the reader understand that nothing else will remain once age creeps in, and that the moments that influence life are best if they are those dearest to us. Above all, with