in do not go gentle into that good night

“Do not go gentle into that good night”, written by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in 1951, is considered to be one of his finest works. The later poems arise out of personality.” If they have a secret it is the one we all share, partly erotic, partly elegiac. Michael Schmidt, in reference to Thomas’ work, writes: “There is a kind of authority to the word magic of the early poems in the famous and popular later poems, the magic is all show. While in Florence, he wrote In Country Sleep, And Other Poems (Dent, 1952), which includes his most famous poem, “Do not go gentle into that good night.” When they returned to Oxfordshire, Thomas began work on three film scripts, namely, “Me and My Bike,” “Rebecca’s Daughters,” and “The Beach at Falesia,” for Gainsborough Films. In 1947 Thomas was awarded a Travelling Scholarship from the Society of Authors in Italy.

Despite the passionate love letters Thomas would write to her, the marriage was turbulent, with rumors of both having multiple affairs. Macnamara and Thomas engaged in an affair, and the couple got married in 1937. Two years after the publication of 18 Poems, Thomas met the dancer Caitlin Macnamara at a pub in London. Thomas style of writing is described in one of the letters: “I make one image-though ‘make’ is not the right word I let, perhaps, an image be ‘made’ emotionally in me and then apply to it what intellectual & critical forces I possess-let it breed another, let that image contradict the first, make, of the third image bred out of the other two together, a fourth contradictory image, and let them all, within my imposed formal limits, conflict.” He was flamboyantly theatrical, an alcoholic and frequently engaged in public riots, and was openly emotional at his poetry readings. In fact, his attitude, coupled with his work, made him the prototype Romantic poet of the popular American imagination. Auden, Thomas was not concerned with exhibiting themes of social and intellectual issues, and his writing, with its intense lyricism and highly charged emotion, has more in common with the Romantic tradition. Thomas also worked as a scriptwriter for the BBC. It was during this time, in his late teens, that Thomas wrote more than half of his collected poems. By December of 1932, he left his job at the Post and decided to concentrate on his poetry full-time. He dropped out of school at sixteen to become a junior reporter for the South Wales Daily Post. Fascinated by language, he excelled in English and reading but neglected other subjects. Lawrence‘s poetry, impressed by vivid descriptions of the natural world. Thomas was an introverted and undistinguishable child.

His father was an English Literature professor. Dylan Marlais Thomas was born on October 27, 1914, in Swansea, South Wales.

In do not go gentle into that good night