The poet Dylan Thomas embodies this shift in his powerful poem “And Death Shall Have No Dominion,” having taken his title from the King James translation of Paul’s discussion of resurrection, “Knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him” (Romans 6:9): And death shall have no dominion. Dead men naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and the west moon; When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone, They shall have stars at elbow and foot; Though they go mad they shall be sane, Though they sink through the sea they
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