Dying of the Light have all faced their fears of death and of life. The novel's title is drawn from Dylan Thomas' 1947 poem about his dying father, "Do not go gentle into that good night", which contains the lines: Do not go gentle into that good night.<br> Rage, rage against the dying of the light. It mentions a race of beings called the "githyanki". This name was taken from the novel for use with a much different race in the "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" game. Dying of the Light Dying of the Light is American author George R. R. Martin's first novel, published
Do not go gentle into that good night before Christmas 1952. It has no title other than its first line, "Do not go gentle into that good night", a line that appears as a refrain throughout the poem along with its other refrain, "Rage, rage against the dying of the light". The poem currently remains under copyright, although the text is available online. The villanelle consists of five stanzas of three lines (tercets) followed by a single stanza of four lines (a quatrain) for a total of nineteen lines. It is structured by two repeating rhymes and two refrains: the first line of the first stanza serves as