Dylan Thomas
Paperback | Pages: 203 pages Rating: 4.2 | 15257 Users | 263 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Collected Poems |
| ISBN: | 0811202054 (ISBN13: 9780811202053) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Dylan Thomas |
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I work in an office where we get a zillion phone calls from all over the world. The people who call us are doctors or clinicians who have a problem with one of the many clinical trials we manage. About half of the time the callers have broken English, and in a few cases they have no English so we get a translator by calling a translation service and conferencing them into the call. This one particular evening a female co-worker - we'll call her Sarah because it was Sarah - got this call from a guy who needed a translator. He was talking in Portuguese, a language which sounds beautiful to non-Portuguese-speaking English people. So anyway, the translator introduces herself and Sarah asks the translator to ask the guy what his problem is. Translator turns that into Portuguese. Guy talks in Portuguese a while. Translator pauses then says to Sarah "The gentleman says that he is calling from Brazil and asks if you would be willing to perform oral sex for him. He has money to pay." Sarah doesn't lose the beat and says "Can you please explain that it appears he may have the incorrect telephone number and that we are a clinical trial management company." Translator turns that into Portuguese. Guy apologises and rings off. Sarah thanks the translator and the call ends. In this analogy, we are all Sarah, every literary critic who's ever written about Dylan Thomas is the translator, and Dylan Thomas is some dickhead from Brazil who sounds so beautiful until you find out he's talking about oral sex all the time.Details Out Of Books Collected Poems
| Title | : | Collected Poems |
| Author | : | Dylan Thomas |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 203 pages |
| Published | : | December 18th 2002 by New Directions Publishing Corporation (first published 1952) |
| Categories | : | Poetry. Classics. Fiction. Literature. European Literature. British Literature. 20th Century. Anthologies. Collections |
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"Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Though wise men at their end know dark is right,Because their words had forked no lightning theyDo not go gentle into that good night.Good men, the last wave by, crying how brightTheir frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,Do notJust a master of sheer language.His poetry works on your inner consciousness, you feel it and hear it before you think it. Untangling his syntax and his associations makes for some interesting reading all its own.His name meant "wave", as in the ocean, in Welsh.He said his three biggest influences were Yeats (I think), The Bible, and Freud.Imagine this simmering stew, this cauldron if you will, and you've got yourself something rich, evocative, stormy, and powerful.It's the goshdarn lifeforce
In Interstellar Movie,DR.Bernard "Michael Chaine"kept repeating these lines,of one of the remarkable poems of the heavenly-gifted poet Dylan Thomas:"Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day,Rage,rage against the dying of the light"Christopher Nolan the distinguished director,quoted the lines of one of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, and one of my favorites no question...Oh,unique,genius,inspiring welsh poetRest in peace Dear
4.5 stars Most poems really moved me, some I didn't really care for: they weren't for me this time! Dylan Thomas has demanding style and writing: I'm pretty sure I didn't get everything, and that I could reread it and understand something else! Most of my favorites deal with death, nature, time, and love. A great discovery, and a book I'll often flip through!
2.5*Call me a philistine by all means. The sad truth is that the Welsh word wizard failed to rock my boat. I appreciated the lilting rhythms, the clever imagery, the brilliantly innovative use of words, the alliterative genius all that. But I struggled to find meanings. Normally after a couple of readings I get it (or at least some of the poets vibe) but I generally failed miserably here and I got crosser and crosser [probably more with myself than D.T.]There were of course some wonderful
This collection has the great poems Fern Hill and Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines. This collection also holds one of my personal favorite poems of all times, the simple yet majestic I Have Longed To Move Away. This book is a great introduction to Thomass work.
I don't do poetry. However, this collection is what I would wish to take to my desert island. Richard Burton took this book to his grave. I prefer the desert island idea. 'Do not go gentle into that good night' must be one of my favourite poems. But there are so many here. Monumental stuff. The bard of the 20th century. I went on pilgrimage to Laugharne to visit his house.The collection I keep like a bible. I can take this down from the shelf and just open it at any page. It's remarkable that
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