Author/Authors :
öz, fahri ankara university, Turkey
Title Of Article :
Apotheosis of Mortal Man: Stellar and Terrestrial Imagery in Dylan Thomas’s Poetry
Abstract :
Dylan Thomas’s poetry is replete with the images of life and death and their cyclicality and rebirth. Such images include stars that stand for human beings’ potential to reach godly heights on the one hand, and the grass that symbolizes their mortality on the other. Such images appear most prominently in his elegies “After the Funeral”, “And death shall have no dominion”, “Do not go gentle into that good night” and “Fern Hill”, which harbours pastoral elements. The images in these poems can be treated as a strong sign of his interest in paganism. The analysis of such images can provide us with clues about the elucidation of Thomas’s marginal yet indispensible place within English poetry since these images attest to the fact that he was not only influenced by English Romantic poets like John Keats but also Nineteenth-century American poets like Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman.
NaturalLanguageKeyword :
Apotheosis , Rebirth , Paganism , Stars , Earth , Elegy , Pastoral , Tradition
JournalTitle :
Gaziantep University Journal Of Social Sciences
