Dylan Thomas

The Victorians, of course, were influenced by the Romantics, and Romantic poets such as Wordsworth lived long enough to be writing into the Victorian age. However, that being said, Dylan Thomas...

Dylan Thomas is known for vivid imagery in his poems. This is especially highlighted when his poems are read aloud. Many of his poems feature nature imagery. One example is "Poem in October." The...

Dylan Thomas' poems are full of symbols and images and this often adds to their complexity and ambiguity. You should also keep in mind there is rarely only one coherent interpretation of a given...

The poetry of Dylan Thomas is richly evocative of the sounds and sights of Nature - particularly those of his native country of Wales where the countryside meets the sea. In works such as 'Under...

Dylan Thomas’ sensual poem “In the White Giant’s Thigh” is reminiscent of the work of poet D.H. Lawrence in that Thomas interestingly conflates the human body and nature in order to highlight the...

Two of the female characters in the drama 'Under Milk Wood' by Dylan Thomas are portrayed as 'dreamers.' This is a common theme in any literature based in small town locations by authors from...

In 1934, Dylan Thomas’s first book, 18 Poems (which brought him fame), was published. While other poets of the 30s were mainly focused on social issues, Thomas set about writing poetry dealing with...

To answer this question, I'll use Thomas' poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," as this is a very well-known poem where Thomas speaks to his dying father, telling him to die well and with...

In “The Hunchback In The Park,” the main characteristic associated with the hunchback is freedom—specifically the kind of freedom associated with nature. It’s a gritty, but real freedom. Thus,...

Ultimately, this poem is about understanding love and becoming symbiotic with nature, as symbolized by the "country senses" which augment the five ordinary ones with which each person is imbued....

Based on his most famous poem, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," I would assume that Thomas would not favor the idea of assisted suicide or euthanasia. In this poem, which is said to be...

An analysis of “After the Funeral (In Memory Of Ann Jones)” might best begin with a reading of “Fern Hill,” another poem by Dylan Thomas, in which the poet recalls his early life and vacations...

"Peaches" and "A Visit to Grandpa's" are the first two stories in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, a collection which forms a kind of autobiography of the writer's younger years. In them, he...

Characterization is the way in which an author uses description, dialogue, inner motivation, and action in order to shape a character's personality. Comparison is a wide term for rhetorical devices...

This is a pretty general question, but I will try to answer as well as possible using one of Thomas' most famous poems: "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night." First, one must realize that...