Father and son know his life is quickly coming to an end, and Thomas begs his father not to carry the emotional baggage of this world , similar to the "lightning" we talked about earlier, in the other world dying a quiet and dignified death. The author's goal is to bring to light all the emotions felt between the two men, whether positive or negative, so that the old man can die discharged and the two men reach a better understanding of each other. of the other and of themselves. In Judith Wright's "Australia, 1970", the author gives much the same advice as Dylan Thomas in "Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night", only in Wright's case her advice is not directed at an individual person, but to the physical land of his native Australia. However, while Thomas advises those who are at the end of their natural life cycle, Wright is giving instructions to a land that is, in fact, being prematurely murdered by its inhabitants.