You Gotta Fight... For Your Life... (to...party??)

In Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas uses many paradoxical expressions.  "Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight (line 13)."  "Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray (line 17)."  Theses paradoxical phrases may seem confusing at first.  However, these phrases do contribute to the meaning of the poem.  I think that the paradoxical expressions help portray the poignant nature of death.  The loss of a loved one is sad, but the realization of insights and wisdom acquired over the course of one's life are priceless.  In the poem, Thomas describes the attitudes of wise men, good men, wild men, and grave men about death.  None of the men approach death happily.  They all see how things could or should have been and are unhappy that their time is over.  I think, overall, the poem is saying through these literary strategies, that the narrator hopes his father approaches death consciously, sad about what could have been or could be.  He can accept the death, but doesn't want his father to die suddenly, unaware of what is happening.  He wants his father to fight for life.