Dylan Thomas Research Paper

Dangerous Mind

Dylan Marlais Thomas was born on October 27, 1914, in Swansea, South Wales. The son of an English Literature professor at the local grammar school. His father would recite Shakespeare to him as a small child, before he could read. Thomas loved the sound of nursery rhymes, foretelling of his later love of Gerald Manley Hopkins, W. B. Yeats, and Edgar Allan Poe. Thomas was a sickly child who shied away from everything except reading. He dropped out of school at the age of 16. Taking a job with the South Wales Daily Post, as a junior reporter. In 1930 he turned all of his attention to his poetry. In 1934, he won the Poet’s Corner book prize and had his first book “18 Poems” published. From there Dylan Thomas proceed to write, while have several other jobs along the way. (Acadamy of American Poets) Dylan Thomas had a dangerous mind when it came to his emotionally charged writing, just as he had a dangerous mind for bad habits in his own life.

The connection with Dylan Thomas’s dangerous mind style and his dangerous mind life. Thomas was not like the other writers of the 20th century, he had a style more like the

Often referred to as the best example of a villanelle, a 19 line poem. The first and third lines of the first stanza alternate as the last lines of stanzas 2-5. This was not a typical form for Dylan to use. The symbolism in this poem is amazingly paired, in the first and third lines of first stanza. “Do not go gentle into that good night,” (Dylan 1) the symbolic death, and “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” (Dylan 3) the symbolic life. Death is to life as dark is to light. In stanza one he tells us death is part of the aging process, eventually your life closes just as the day does. Just as the sun fights to keep the day from turning to night, you should not gentle succumb to