{"id":101084,"date":"2025-03-02T19:44:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T19:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/?page_id=101084"},"modified":"2025-04-13T08:42:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T08:42:41","slug":"dylan-thomas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/teacher-courses\/tertiary-drama\/spiritual\/dylan-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"101084\" class=\"elementor elementor-101084\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4ff8acc elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"4ff8acc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" 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elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-540cb39 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"540cb39\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6476f23 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6476f23\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/teacher-courses\/tertiary-drama\/dramatisation\/\"><i>Dylan Thomas<\/i><\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7ea3e59 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"7ea3e59\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4b5a1e4 animated-fast elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"4b5a1e4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1a3dc5e\" data-id=\"1a3dc5e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f908d56 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f908d56\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><b><em>DYLAN THOMAS, \n\nPoet\n\n1914 - 1953\n\nby Bob Pierson<\/em><\/font><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c3f6ff6 animated-fast elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"c3f6ff6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div 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Like many a dreamy kid, I tried to write in his style.<\/p><p>In those days, it was difficult to understand all what he was saying in his poetry. It was both obscure and it was wonderful. One of my teachers held that Dylan&#8217;s work was &#8220;All truth and beauty&#8221;&#8230;while another retorted, &#8220;Ner&#8230;It&#8217;s all about booze and sex.&#8221;<\/p><p>Later I read his poem, Fern Hill, to a class of students at the Sorbonne. And at the end of the reading, the tutor remarked, &#8220;that was great; we understood absolutely nothing but it was magnificent&#8221;. &#8220;C&#8217;etait magnifique&#8230;on n&#8217;a rien compris, mais quand meme..magnifique&#8221;. Since which time, after constant reading on the one hand and listening to Dylan&#8217;s own recordings, the meanings have become clearer.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9ebf89b elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"9ebf89b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-101084-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanbob1.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanbob1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanbob1.mp3\">https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanbob1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fe2273f\" data-id=\"fe2273f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ef618cc elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"ef618cc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"339\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylan.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-101103\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylan.jpg 339w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylan-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\"><font color=\"red\">Dylan Thomas by Augustus John<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2e42542 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"2e42542\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"334\" height=\"448\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanalfredjanes.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-101101\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanalfredjanes.jpg 334w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanalfredjanes-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\"><font color=\"red\">Dylan Thomas by Alfred Janes<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a9d62d4 animated-fast elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"a9d62d4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e5e88fa\" data-id=\"e5e88fa\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8989ff8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8989ff8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>For me, Dylan Thomas, is part writer and part composer ; communicating ideas and thoughts both directly, via language and indirectly by what I might call word-music&#8230;.and so he speaks to that part of the mind that computes and calculates and to the other part that deals in imagination.<\/p><p>And yet there remains a difficulty. I love his work but find his own recordings quite hard to listen to. He sounds very English and I sometimes wonder to whom he is speaking. It occurs to me, in my whimsy, that he&#8217;s actually speaking to his own muse or possibly to himself. And yet Dylan knew about radio and knew that radio is pillow-talk &#8211; no better expressed than in the Introduction to Under Milk Wood&#8230; which I&#8217;d like to read now:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-073c46d\" data-id=\"073c46d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0c09e02 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"0c09e02\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylantown-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-101205\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylantown-1.png 490w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylantown-1-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\"><font color=\"red\">Laugharne by Edward Morland Lewis<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cac34db animated-fast elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"cac34db\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-709bfd6\" data-id=\"709bfd6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bb1b180 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bb1b180\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTo begin at the beginning:\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-66fe252 animated-fast elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"66fe252\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a1a003b\" data-id=\"a1a003b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-acc0a29 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"acc0a29\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-101084-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanmilkwood.mp3?_=2\" \/><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanmilkwood.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanmilkwood.mp3\">https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanmilkwood.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-79d6f13 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"79d6f13\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIt is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless\nand bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched,\ncourters&#8217;-and-rabbits&#8217; wood limping invisible down to the\nsloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea.\nThe houses are blind as moles (though moles see fine to-night\nin the snouting, velvet dingles) or blind as Captain Cat\nthere in the muffled middle by the pump and the town clock,\nthe shops in mourning, the Welfare Hall in widows&#8217; weeds.\nAnd all the people of the lulled and dumbfound town are\nsleeping now.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-314373a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"314373a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHush, the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the fishers, the tradesmen and pensioners, cobbler, schoolteacher,\npostman and publican, the undertaker and the fancy woman,\ndrunkard, dressmaker, preacher, policeman, the webfoot\ncocklewomen and the tidy wives. Young girls lie bedded soft\nor glide in their dreams, with rings and trousseaux, bridesmaided by glowworms down the aisles of the\norganplaying wood. The boys are dreaming wicked or of the\nbucking ranches of the night and the jollyrodgered sea. And\nthe anthracite statues of the horses sleep in the fields,\nand the cows in the byres, and the dogs in the wetnosed yards; and the cats nap in the slant corners or lope sly,\nstreaking and needling, on the one cloud of the roofs.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-413de95\" data-id=\"413de95\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1d87262 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1d87262\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanhome.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-101131\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\"><font color=\"red\">Dylan's Home<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-689ad46 animated-fast elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"689ad46\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-76d371a\" data-id=\"76d371a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f25c28 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5f25c28\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYou can hear the dew falling, and the hushed town breathing.\nOnly  your eyes are unclosed to see the black and folded\ntown fast, and slow, asleep. And you alone can hear the\ninvisible starfall, the darkest-before-dawn minutely dew-grazed\nstir of the black, dab-filled sea where the Arethusa, the\nCurlew and the Skylark, Zanzibar, Rhiannon, the Rover,\nthe Cormorant, and the Star of Wales tilt and ride.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1def838\" data-id=\"1def838\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8b879c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"8b879c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"294\" height=\"294\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanshed.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-101188\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanshed.jpg 294w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanshed-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\"><font color=\"red\">Dylan's Writing Shed<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1d839d0 animated-fast elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"1d839d0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7704696\" data-id=\"7704696\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-af79358 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"af79358\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tListen. It is night moving in the streets, the processional\nsalt slow musical wind in Coronation Street and Cockle Row,\nit is the grass growing on Llaregyb Hill, dewfall, starfall,\nthe sleep of birds in Milk Wood.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a4b951d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a4b951d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tListen. It is night in the chill, squat chapel, hymning in\nbonnet and brooch and bombazine black, butterfly choker and\nbootlace bow, coughing like nannygoats, sucking mintoes,\nfortywinking hallelujah; night in the four-ale, quiet as a\ndomino; in Ocky Milkman&#8217;s lofts like a mouse with gloves;\nin Dai Bread&#8217;s bakery flying like black flour. It is to-night\nin Donkey Street, trotting silent, With seaweed on its\nhooves, along the cockled cobbles, past curtained fernpot,\ntext and trinket, harmonium, holy dresser, watercolours\ndone by hand, china dog and rosy tin teacaddy. It is night neddying among the snuggeries of babies\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6a0ce16\" data-id=\"6a0ce16\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4e17fba elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4e17fba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"130\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanboat.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-101172\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\"><font color=\"red\">Dylan's Boathouse<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-30e5b4e animated-fast elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"30e5b4e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-aa20727\" data-id=\"aa20727\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f68478d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f68478d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Look. It is night, dumbly, royally winding through the Coronation cherry trees; going through the graveyard of Bethesda with winds gloved and folded, and dew doffed; tumbling by the Sailors Arms.<\/p><p>Time passes. Listen. Time passes.<\/p><p>Come closer now.<\/p><p>Only you can hear the houses sleeping in the streets in theslow\u00a0 deep salt and silent black, bandaged night. Only you can see, in the blinded bedrooms, the coms. and petticoats over the chairs, the jugs and basins, the glasses of teeth, Thou Shalt Not on the wall, and the yellowing dickybird-watching pictures of the dead. Only you can hear and see, behind the eyes of the sleepers, the movements and countries and mazesand colours and dismays and rainbows and tunes and wishesand flight and fall and despairs and big seas of their dreams.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-20bd208\" data-id=\"20bd208\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b4662e0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b4662e0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"162\" height=\"106\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylancastle.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-101196\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\"><font color=\"red\">Laugharne Castle<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-239aa92 animated-fast elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"239aa92\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-974ba43\" data-id=\"974ba43\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d0c3053 animated-fast elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"d0c3053\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-aff8f0b\" data-id=\"aff8f0b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e9719cd elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"e9719cd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-101084-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanbob2.mp3?_=3\" \/><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanbob2.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanbob2.mp3\">https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanbob2.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-aebe93b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"aebe93b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"western\">Before I go any further I need to be clear and honest&#8230;I&#8217;m no literary scholar as any scholar would be swift to notice; just an enthusiast. But I was fumbling through one of those Penguin tomes, you know,\u00a0 that scholars might appreciate, and I found a reference entitled, &#8220;untranslatable&#8221; which was, apparently, a word first coined by Coleridge and only by him. Coleridge used &#8220;untranslatable&#8221; in the following sentence: &#8220;In poetry, in which every line, every phrase, may pass the ordeal of deliberation and deliberate choice, it is possible, and barely possible, to attain that ultimatum, which I have ventured to propose as the infallible test of a blameless style; namely its untranslatableness in words of the same language without injury to the meaning&#8221;.<\/p><p class=\"western\">And for me, &#8220;untranslatable&#8221; applies well to all Dylan&#8217;s works&#8230;the lad who left school at the age of 16 with an insufficient education. It would be appalling &#8230; and appallingly difficult to to alter the words of a Dylan Thomas poem without inflicting that injury. A blameless style? Well I leave that for you to judge.<\/p><p class=\"western\">His poems are, generally, a challenge to read and to read aloud&#8230;so let me start with one that avoids obscurity &#8230;that I find quite easy to understand &#8230; the meaning is clear&#8230; the message is straightforward.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ae37e33 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ae37e33\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Right the way through Dylan&#8217;s work run constant references to Creation and to the Creator.<\/p><p>And that last poem and perhaps the majority of Dylan Thomas&#8217;s poems draw from a pallet of the four elements: earth, air, fire and water. Hardly does his pen or brush, if you like,\u00a0 touch the paper before some\u00a0 bird, a flower, a bone, the sea, the sun, a rock or the wind are flung, hurled-hard into the pot. I know I&#8217;m mixing my metaphors. He launches all the tones against each other: hard tones, soft tones, rough tones and smooth tones. Here he presents a logical idea or a comment: on life or death&#8230; and there, he delves into the whirlpool of his sub-conscious to snatch out whatever he can find.<\/p><p>In his poem &#8220;And death shall have no dominion&#8221; he goes straight to the Bible and makes a single edit to St Pauls (Romans 6:9) assertion: &#8220;and death shall have no more dominion&#8221;&#8230;he simply excises the word, &#8220;more.&#8221;<\/p><p>Dylan&#8217;s own recording of this poem is a defiant shout at his listeners; he&#8217;s almost like some Charlton Heston parting the Red Sea into giant cliffs of water with the wind blowing his grey hair across a craggy countenance.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8444003\" data-id=\"8444003\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d12f928 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"d12f928\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1016\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanhutbysea-806x1024.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-101222\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanhutbysea-806x1024.png 806w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanhutbysea-236x300.png 236w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanhutbysea-768x976.png 768w, https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanhutbysea.png 867w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\"><font color=\"red\">His writing hut by the sea by Liam O'Farrell<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2fda00f animated-fast elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"2fda00f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4665d65\" data-id=\"4665d65\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9d13d0d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9d13d0d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe force that through the green fuse drives the flower<br>\nDrives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees<br>\nIs my destroyer.<br>\nAnd I am dumb to tell the crooked rose<br>\nMy youth is bent by the same wintry fever.<br><br>\nThe force that drives the water through the rocks<br>\n        Drives my red blood; that dries the mouthing streams<br>\n        Turns mine to wax.<br>\n        And I am dumb to mouth unto my veins<br>\n        How at the mountain spring the same mouth sucks.<br><br>\nThe hand that whirls the water in the pool<br>\n        Stirs the quicksand; that ropes the blowing wind<br>\n        Hauls my shroud sail.<br>\n        And I am dumb to tell the hanging man<br>\n        How of my clay is made the hangman&#8217;s lime.<br><br>\nThe lips of time leech to the fountain head;<br>\n        Love drips and gathers, but the fallen blood<br>\n        Shall calm her sores.<br>\n        And I am dumb to tell a weather&#8217;s wind<br>\n        How time has ticked a heaven round the stars.<br><br>\n\n        And I am dumb to tell the lover&#8217;s tomb<br>\n        How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e1d2a46\" data-id=\"e1d2a46\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b189403 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"b189403\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-101084-4\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanforce.mp3?_=4\" \/><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanforce.mp3?_=4\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanforce.mp3\">https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanforce.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7252a40 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"7252a40\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"202\" height=\"149\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanaeronwy.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-101254\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\"><font color=\"red\">with wife Caitlin and daughter Aeronwy <\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a6f1211 animated-fast elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"a6f1211\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d47950a\" data-id=\"d47950a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-727f2d6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"727f2d6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-101084-5\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylan.mp3?_=5\" \/><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylan.mp3?_=5\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylan.mp3\">https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylan.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d9a6754 animated-fast elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"d9a6754\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e5dc045\" data-id=\"e5dc045\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0763a4e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0763a4e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Right the way through Dylan&#8217;s work run constant references to Creation and to the Creator.<\/p><p>And that last poem and perhaps the majority of Dylan Thomas&#8217;s poems draw from a pallet of the four elements: earth, air, fire and water. Hardly does his pen or brush, if you like,\u00a0 touch the paper before some\u00a0 bird, a flower, a bone, the sea, the sun, a rock or the wind are flung, hurled-hard into the pot. I know I&#8217;m mixing my metaphors. He launches all the tones against each other: hard tones, soft tones, rough tones and smooth tones. Here he presents a logical idea or a comment: on life or death&#8230; and there, he delves into the whirlpool of his sub-conscious to snatch out whatever he can find.<\/p><p>In his poem &#8220;And death shall have no dominion&#8221; he goes straight to the Bible and makes a single edit to St Pauls (Romans 6:9) assertion: &#8220;and death shall have no more dominion&#8221;&#8230;he simply excises the word, &#8220;more.&#8221;<\/p><p>Dylan&#8217;s own recording of this poem is a defiant shout at his listeners; he&#8217;s almost like some Charlton Heston parting the Red Sea into giant cliffs of water with the wind blowing his grey hair across a craggy countenance.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f7e2169 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"f7e2169\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-101084-6\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylandeath.mp3?_=6\" \/><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylandeath.mp3?_=6\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylandeath.mp3\">https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylandeath.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5062b0d\" data-id=\"5062b0d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f4afaae elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f4afaae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanstatue.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-101299\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\"><font color=\"red\">Dylan's Statue<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fa47f29 animated-fast elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"fa47f29\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-885ed81\" data-id=\"885ed81\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42c3b26 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"42c3b26\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnd death shall have no dominion.<br>\n        Dead mean naked they shall be one<br>\n        With the man in the wind and the west moon;<br>\n        When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,<br>\n        They shall have stars at elbow and foot;<br>\n        Though they go mad they shall be sane,<br>\n        Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;<br>\n        Though lovers be lost love shall not;<br>\n        And death shall have no dominion. <br><br>\n\nAnd death shall have no dominion.<br>Under the windings of the sea<br>\n        They lying long shall not die windily;<br>\n        Twisting on racks when sinews give way,<br>\n        Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;<br>\n        Faith in their hands shall snap in two,<br>\n        And the unicorn evils run them through;<br>\n        Split all ends up they shan&#8217;t crack;<br>\n        And death shall have no dominion.<br><br>\nAnd death shall have no dominion.<br>\n        No more may gulls cry at their ears<br>\n        Or waves break loud on the seashores;<br>\n        Where blew a flower may a flower no more<br>\n        Lift its head to the blows of the rain;<br>\n        Though they be mad and dead as nails,<br>\n        Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;<br>\n        Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,<br>\n        And death shall have no dominion. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0f08958\" data-id=\"0f08958\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b8d5abe elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b8d5abe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanstatue.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-101299\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\"><font color=\"red\">Dylan's Statue<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0af19e6 animated-fast elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"0af19e6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5fc1362\" data-id=\"5fc1362\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-db9d1a8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"db9d1a8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-101084-7\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanbob4.mp3?_=7\" \/><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanbob4.mp3?_=7\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanbob4.mp3\">https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylanbob4.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f90ae15 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f90ae15\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>There are commentators who would judge that &#8220;And death shall have no dominion&#8221; represents an emphatic affirmation that death isn&#8217;t really the end. Penned in September 1936 it&#8217;s one of his most notable comments on the eternal nature of the human spirit. But to my mind, it contrasts strongly, with that angry cry, many years later, addressed to his father called, &#8220;Do not go gentle into that good night&#8221;; a father that was in his 80s, in afflicted health and with failing eyesight. For if death really shall have no dominion then its acceptance, to which Dylan Thomas paradoxically refers in the second verse, seems acknowledged as a consummation devoutly to be wished. You know, I think that Dylan was expressing his own rage at the dying of his father&#8217;s light&#8230;anger, they tell me, is a natural response to bereavement&#8230;<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-01f369b elementor-widget elementor-widget-wp-widget-media_audio\" data-id=\"01f369b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"wp-widget-media_audio.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-101084-8\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylandonotgo.mp3?_=8\" \/><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylandonotgo.mp3?_=8\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylandonotgo.mp3\">https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylandonotgo.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cca28c0 animated-fast elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"cca28c0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4a40d26\" data-id=\"4a40d26\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-89f2742 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"89f2742\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDo not go gentle into that\u00a0good night,<br>\nOld age should burn and rave at close of day; <br>\nRage, rage against the dying of the light.<br><br>\nThough wise men at their end know dark is right, <br>\nBecause their words had forked no lightning they <br>\nDo not go gentle into that good night.<br><br>\n\nGood men, the last wave by, crying how bright <br>\nTheir frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, <br>\nRage, rage against the dying of the light.<br><br>\n\nWild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, <br>\nAnd learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, <br>\nDo not go gentle into that good night.<br><br>\n\nGrave men, near death, who see with blinding sight <br>\nBlind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, <br>\nRage, rage against the dying of the light.<br><br>\n\nAnd you, my father, there on the sad  height, <br>\nCurse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. <br>\nDo not go gentle into that good night.<br>\nRage, rage against the dying of the light.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-faeb874\" data-id=\"faeb874\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7cfcba1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"7cfcba1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"165\" src=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/dylangrave.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-101327\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Dylan's Grave<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-732af8f animated-fast elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default elementor-invisible\" data-id=\"732af8f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-aa573aa\" data-id=\"aa573aa\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-265a19d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"265a19d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Some thoughts for students:<\/strong><br \/>1. Note down striking phrases or poetic lines as you listen to the poetry.<br \/>2. Listen to a line and repeat it with the same rhythm and emphasis.<br \/>3. Take turns reading Dylan Thomas\u2019 poetry with different emotions or accents.<br \/>4. Act out lines from <em>Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night<\/em> or the beginning of <em>Under Milkwood<\/em> with gestures and tone changes.<br \/>5. Write a short piece mimicking his imagery-heavy style.<br \/>6. Poetic Chain Story: Each student adds a poetic line to a group poem, inspired by his themes.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cb0af35 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"cb0af35\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a49088c\" data-id=\"a49088c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-2587009 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default 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href=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/teacher-courses\/tertiary-drama\/hopkins-2\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-arrow-left\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M257.5 445.1l-22.2 22.2c-9.4 9.4-24.6 9.4-33.9 0L7 273c-9.4-9.4-9.4-24.6 0-33.9L201.4 44.7c9.4-9.4 24.6-9.4 33.9 0l22.2 22.2c9.5 9.5 9.3 25-.4 34.3L136.6 216H424c13.3 0 24 10.7 24 24v32c0 13.3-10.7 24-24 24H136.6l120.5 114.8c9.8 9.3 10 24.8.4 34.3z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Gerard Manley Hopkins<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-47d5734\" data-id=\"47d5734\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1343251 elementor-align-center animated-fast elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"1343251\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-md\" href=\"https:\/\/learnetd.com\/teachers\/teacher-courses\/tertiary-drama\/epilogue-2-2\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t<svg aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"e-font-icon-svg e-fas-arrow-right\" viewBox=\"0 0 448 512\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"M190.5 66.9l22.2-22.2c9.4-9.4 24.6-9.4 33.9 0L441 239c9.4 9.4 9.4 24.6 0 33.9L246.6 467.3c-9.4 9.4-24.6 9.4-33.9 0l-22.2-22.2c-9.5-9.5-9.3-25 .4-34.3L311.4 296H24c-13.3 0-24-10.7-24-24v-32c0-13.3 10.7-24 24-24h287.4L190.9 101.2c-9.8-9.3-10-24.8-.4-34.3z\"><\/path><\/svg>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Siegfried Sassoon<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-4853c64 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4853c64\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-c46b2b5\" data-id=\"c46b2b5\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap 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