Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer whose lyrical, emotionally intense verse made him one of the most celebrated English-language poets of the twentieth century.
His works include "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "Under Milk Wood." Known for his dramatic public readings and tumultuous personal life marked by alcoholism, he died in New York at age thirty-nine.
His name sometimes appears as shorthand for the romantic image of the self-destructive literary genius.
Welsh coastal city
- CardiffWelsh seat of government
- EisteddfodWelsh arts and performance festival
- bardPoet of epics
- CelticOf Irish-Welsh descent
Repeating-refrain verse structure
- rageIntense, violent anger
- verseMetered poetic passage
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
- imageryVivid descriptive language
metaphor · alliteration · assonance · ballad · elegy · rhyme · rhythm · cadence
Addiction to drinking
- New YorkNortheastern metropolis and state
- Chelsea HotelFamed Manhattan residential hotel
- pubsCasual drinking establishments
- debtMoney owed another
excess · charisma · affairs · legend · tragic · early death · thirty-nine · poetry readings
State of eventual death
- childhoodLife's earliest phase
- natureInherent quality or disposition
- memoryMind's retention capacity
- innocenceFreedom from wrongdoing
time · death · birth · religion · nostalgia · loss · youth · pastoral
Oral delivery from memory
- BBC broadcastsUK public network output
- readingInterpreting written text
- oratoryFormal eloquent discourse
- bardicOf lyric poets
sonorous · rich · booming · performance · radio plays · spoken word · declamation · incantation
Swansea
Welsh coastal city
- CardiffWelsh seat of government
- EisteddfodWelsh arts and performance festival
- bardPoet of epics
villanelle
Repeating-refrain verse structure
imagery · metaphor · alliteration · assonance · ballad · elegy · rhyme · rhythm · cadence
alcoholism
Addiction to drinking
- New YorkNortheastern metropolis and state
- Chelsea HotelFamed Manhattan residential hotel
- pubsCasual drinking establishments
debt · excess · charisma · affairs · legend · tragic · early death · thirty-nine · poetry readings · carousing
mortality
State of eventual death
innocence · time · death · birth · religion · nostalgia · loss · youth · pastoral · seasons
recitation
Oral delivery from memory
- BBC broadcastsUK public network output
- readingInterpreting written text
- oratoryFormal eloquent discourse
bardic · sonorous · rich · booming · performance · radio plays · spoken word · declamation · incantation · dramatic reading
- poetspoet, Homer, Dante, Milton, Emily Dickinson
- Welsh Poets
- British LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Austen
- British AuthorsCharles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl
- ThomasTom Sawyer, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Tom Brady, Tom Jones
- British PoetryT.S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, W.H. Auden, Seamus Heaney, Wilfred Owen