I am trying to findout the name of the poem by Poe in the movie Dangerous minds something about Walk softly into the night . I dont even know if it is Poe Thanks

-- Anonymous, December 10, 2000

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Wendy,

My recollection of the movie Dangerous Minds is highly suspect but I seem to recall a teacher attempting to interest rough intercity kids in English literature and began by introducing them to Bob Dylan and then to Dylan Thomas. I could be mistaken here but the poem by Dylan Thomas, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" maybe the one for which you are searching. The poem follows:

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.

Regards,

-- Anonymous, December 10, 2000