And Death Shall Have No Dominion (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Dylan Thomas
- First Published: 1933
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Spiritual life or spirituality, Christianity, Death or dying, Afterlife, Life, philosophy of, Life and death, Reincarnation, Resurrection
The Poem
“And Death Shall Have No Dominion” is a poem in three nine-line stanzas of sprung rhythm. Each of the stanzas begins and ends with the title line, which echoes Romans 6:9 from the King James translation of the Christian New Testament: “Death hath no more dominion.” The title and the refrain give the theme of the poem—resurrection—and introduce its characteristic rhythm and solemn tone.
The poem is built on repetition, and not merely of the title. Once the meaning of the first line is grasped, the entire poem is understood. Each of the intervening...
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