The best example of villanelle is Dylan Thomas’ “Do not go gentle into that good night”.
<u>A villanelle is a lyrical poem that includes nineteen lines</u>. Moreover, <u>a villanelle is structured with five tercets, that is to say a three line stanza, and a quatrain, a stanza consisting of four lines, at the end</u>. The poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" written by Dylan Thomas is a villanelle because it has nineteen lines: five tercets and a quatrain. One of the main themes of this poem is death.
This excerpt might suggest that the world is a place to be observed in contemplation. As regards the words "rising and gliding", it might be said that Whitman used them to portray how the speaker is feeling, maybe he is happy to leave.
I think people still grapple these obsessions because most people want to be young as beautiful. They want to look like models and some people would do anything to look like them.
