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kwannebo
kwannebo
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High School - 12th Grade

From which Dylan Thomas poem does the line "All trees are oak trees, except pine trees," come from?

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Posted by kwannebo on Wednesday April 23, 2008 at 2:45 PM and tagged with dylan thomas, oak trees, pine trees, quote, the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.

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  1. blazedale

    I couldn't find this line in any Dylan Thomas poems, however I did find this reference from a book of Dylan Thomas radio broadcast transcripts, from Thomas reading from the story "The Crumbs of One Man's Year":

    Once, indeed, I wrote a poem with a friend that began: "All trees are oaks, except for fir-trees". The poem had continued, "All birds are robins, except crows, or rooks."

    I don't know if this poem was every actually written or if it was just a fragment.

    Sources:
    http://books.google.com/books?id=0wlMeW_WNNEC

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    Posted by blazedale on Wednesday April 23, 2008 at 2:55 PM


  2. linda-allen Teacher
    High School - 10th Grade

    You might be able to find the poem at the Poets & Writers web site. John Barth used that line as a title for an article he wrote for that journal. In the article, he discusses the work of other writers, including Dylan Thomas. I've pasted a link to that article below.

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    http://www.pw.org/mag/0401/barth.htm

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    Posted by linda-allen on Wednesday April 23, 2008 at 5:11 PM