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| Title | : | Collected Poems |
| Author | : | Dylan Thomas |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special 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 |
Dylan Thomas
Paperback | Pages: 203 pages Rating: 4.2 | 15257 Users | 263 Reviews
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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.
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| Original Title: | Collected Poems |
| ISBN: | 0811202054 (ISBN13: 9780811202053) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Dylan Thomas |
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Ratings: 4.2 From 15257 Users | 263 ReviewsCrit About Books Collected Poems
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!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 not
This review is about me much more than about the poetry of Dylan Thomas. You can skip to the second last paragraph to read an excerpt from a Thomas poem if you like. Reading this collection transported me to another time and place in my life. It was a time and place when I sought depth in my life. A time and place when I was much younger, much poorer, seeking love and sex and meaning. In December 1967, I travelled from the small community in which I lived to the city to see my first rock
"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 not
This is my holy bible.I feel out of place without it.Favorite passages soon to follow.
"Fern Hill" is one of the most beautiful poems in twentieth century literature. And everything else in Thomas' compressed, darkly exuberant oeuvre is pretty amazing too.
Taking Time to Experience the KnownGrowing up in the Pacific Northwest, I feel as if I know Mt. Si. An iconic rock formation in the Cascade foothills, it is an easily identified landmark signifying entrance into the mountains through Interstate 90. Its an integral part of the region, something you would assuredly mention to an out-of-towner if you happened to drive past it.But recognition is a different phenomenon than true experience. I still havent endeavored to hike the full mountain, but my
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