<![CDATA[Collected Poems 1934-1952]]>

false <![CDATA[Collected Poems 1934-1952]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174167196m/367802.jpg 367802 33 Dylan Thomas's poems gambol & frisk across the tongue & imagination like those of few poets. His choicely crafted (often synaesthetic) phrases, his musicality & his laughingly lilting language are nicely captured by the first two stanzas of Fern Hill--read it aloud for full effect: <BLOCKQUOTE> Now as I was young & easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house & happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail & climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes, & honored among wagons I was prince of the apple towns, & once below a time I lordly had the trees & leaves Trail with daisies & barley Down the rivers of the windfall light. & as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns About the happy yard & singing as the farm was home, In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play & be Golden in the mercy of his means, & green & golden I was huntsman & herdsman, the calves Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear & cold, & the sabbath rang slowly In the pebbles of the holy streams... </BLOCKQUOTE> This collection of his poems contains only those pieces he wished preserved & should be owned by all who love beautifully crafted language. 357793 book 1952 Collected Poems 1934-1952 total:1057|5:532|4:365|3:141|2:17|1:2| 1057 4579 1438 98 5 8 false false Fri May 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 21:58:41 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 06:22:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 1997 Tue Feb 12 01:34:56 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 01:39:25 -0800 2008 Just 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.

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Very much a poet for adolescents, and whyever not!
This first poet I fell into; the first poetry book I ever bought (Deaths and Entrances, in a tiny bookshop in a shoddy little town).

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"Do not go gentle into that good night"
Elegy
Fern Hill
Hunchback in the Park
Poem in October
Love in the Asylum
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Twenty-four years remind the tears of my eyes.
(Bury the dead for fear that they walk to the grave in labour.)
In the groin of the natural doorway I crouched like a tailor
Sewing a shroud for a journey
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My birthday began with the water-
Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name
Above the farms and the white horses
And I rose
In rainy autumn
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days.
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First stanza:

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.

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