Questions tagged [dylan-thomas]
Questions about the works of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) or his life as a writer.
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Meaning behind “Where Once The Waters Of Your Face“
I recently read a poem called “Where Once The Waters Of Your Face” by Dylan Thomas. What does it mean? I feel there are a lot of terms related to sailing but I’m not sure I understand it completely. ...
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In what way can the image of bowels "packed in furnace" recall an image of a sea "tumbling in harness"?
I'm trying to get a grasp of a poetical image of being "packed in furnace", found in Ted Hughes' Crow's opening poem "Two Legends":
Two Legends
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Black was the without eye
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The grammatical function of "Nor" without "Neither" or "Not" in poetry
I've seen a number of examples of poetry, where "nor" appears without a preceding negative. In these examples, I'm unsure of whether I'm meant to understand the sentence as:
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What does "the sad height" represent in "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas?
In the final stanza of Dylan Thomas's Do not go gentle into that good night, he says,
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go ...
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What does the "good night" symbolize in Dylan Thomas's "Do not go gentle into that good night"?
Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas, he begins with "Do not go gentle into that good night". He also uses this as one of two alternating refrains. In this poem, what does the "good ...
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