![]() Referenced in the title of Roseanne's series finale. ![]() "Dying of the Light" is the title of an episode of Heroes.The line "Rage, rage against the dying of the light" is quoted in the Doctor Who episode "The Shakespeare Code." Shakespeare likes it, but the Doctor tells him it belongs to another person.Referenced in the title of the last Skulduggery Pleasant book, The Dying of the Light.Quoted in Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel.The last stanza appears as an epigraph for the Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which is about a man whose father is dying.It's appropriate, taking place on a dying planet, among people of a dying culture and revolving around dying or dead relationships. Martin's novel Dying of the Light is taken from this poem. ![]() Mann also quotes it, but for him it really is just about his own personal fear of death. He's not raging against his own personal death, but the death of the entire human race.
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