The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Dylan Thomas
- First Published: 1933
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Nature, Flowers, Death or dying, Life, philosophy of, Life and death, Reincarnation, Worms
The Poem
“The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower” is a carefully sculptured poem of four stanzas and a coda, its twenty-two lines scrupulously crafted for maximum power and, to some extent, maximum puzzlement.
The poem, as the title echoing the first line suggests, is about a mysterious force, which the poet proceeds to define, qualify, and examine in a variety of ways. This force, presumably the force behind all nature and reality—maybe even a divine force—paradoxically combines life and death and links the poet—the “I” of the poem—to...
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