Dylan Thomas Poems of 1933 Essay -- Dylan Thomas Poets Poetry Languag

Dylan Thomas Poems of 1933Show how, in his poems of 1933, Dylan Thomas uses language and poetic version to explore both his own metaphysical viewpoint and his personateas a poet in relation to the rest of society.In this essay I will look at how Dylan Thomas uses language and poeticform to explore his own metaphysical viewpoint and his position as apoet in relation to the rest of society.I will begin by looking for at and analysing the poems that explore DTsmetaphysical ideas. In this part of my analysis I will be analysingrelevant parts of the following poems The force that by meaning of the unripe priming, And death shall have no dominion and Why east windchills.====================================================================From reading the first poem The force that through the green fuse I externalise the image of life being the force and living things are thefuses. I think that what DT is toilsome to say is that life is acontinual cycle and never stops, it is only the physical elementswhich the force must possess to become life that are the restrictionto the flowing and continual cycle. I think the key lexis here isfuse the word fuse has many different connotations within thecontext of this poem (also note that the fuse is green a furtherconnection with nature and natural things). One such meaning thatcould be derived from it is that of a fuse used in an electricalsocket. This kind of fuse breaks if there is too much current flowingthrough at once. On the other hand the word fuse can also means tojoin together, to combine. So, the force that combines human kind andnature as one is at the same time the force that divides us andprevents us from understanding why we exist.... ... nature inorder to create bead and wine for Holy Communion. This is show in line10 Man broke the sun, pulled the wind depressed the word sun could alsobe a pun for son Jesus.In the last stanza the reader is addressed directly you, bringingthem into the poem and allowing them to see what damage man iscausing. He reminds them that he too is a part of nature, which seemsto suggest that his destruction is an inevitable part of his purposeon earth.Overall I feel that these poems give a representation of DTs positionas a poet in relation to the rest of society. I feel that he is tryingto say that, as a poet, he is isolated from the rest of civilisationand that it is his job to help readers see the falseness of societyand persuade them to not exchange it, but realise the illusion andappreciate the wonders of nature and all natural things.