Dylan Thomas Research Paper

Dylan Thomas’ lived his life beyond his years, abided by his beliefs and created works, such as The Hunchback in the Park, in which he displayed his wisdom. Most people have only heard the famous lines, “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”(Thomas 2703), but have no idea where the line comes from, much less who wrote it. Thomas, like many other poets, has lines from his poetry that are famous, and yet, no one knows who penned them. He wrote many poems that brought him fame, but not fortune during his lifetime and made him much larger than life since his untimely death. Dylan Marlais Thomas was born on October 27, 1914, to Welsh parents in Swansea, South Wales. His father was an English Literature professor and began reading Shakespeare to him before he could even read. It seems as though Thomas was born to write stories through poetry. He began writing as a small child and had his works published in school magazines. Thomas held a passion for language,

It consisted of sixteen poems and seven stories. The stories in this volume had already been published in periodicals. This collection of works proved to be a commercial failure, but this was attributed to the war time and the public not having the funds to purchase the volume. Much to Thomas’ chagrin, the material in his third publishing was referred to as being surrealistic. Annis Pratt quoted Thomas as saying, “I do not mind from where the images of a poem are dragged up; drag them up, if you like, from the nethermost sea of the hidden self; but, before they reach paper, they must go through all the rational processes of the intellect” about his work. The works in this volume show Thomas’ mind’s eye had started to reflect on different things. His work had started to be written in response to the happenings in his life at the time, such as an argument he had with his wife, the birth of his son and the death of his