Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. It is emotion recollected in tranquillity. W. Wordsworth (MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

(MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. It is emotion recollected in tranquillity. W. Wordsworth (MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

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• March 03, 2023

Dylan Thomas had a very different view of poetry compared to Wordsworth's idea of "emotion recollected in tranquillity." In fa...

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion. T.S. Eliot Comment particularly on Thomas's "individual" struggle from darkness towards "some measure of light". Try to describe the individuality, the uniqueness, the difference, of the struggle. (MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

(MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion. T.S. Eliot Comment particularly on Thomas's "individual" struggle from darkness towards "some measure of light". Try to describe the individuality, the uniqueness, the difference, of the struggle. (MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

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• March 03, 2023

T.S. Eliot famously claimed that "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion." While this statement sugg...

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Poetry is, at bottom, a criticism of life. M. Arnold (MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

(MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

Poetry is, at bottom, a criticism of life. M. Arnold (MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

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• March 03, 2023

Dylan Thomas had a complex and multifaceted view of poetry, and it is difficult to distill it down to a single statement. However, it is pos...

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Do you think the process of image formation in his poems is fully controlled by his consciousness or partly prompted by subconscious imagination? Notice that on the one hand he claims that he is a conscious craftsman and on the other admits that he does not make an image, “let perhaps, an image be made emotionally in me”. Would you say that the logical or linguistic inconsistency is imaginative or emotional consistency? (MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

(MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

Do you think the process of image formation in his poems is fully controlled by his consciousness or partly prompted by subconscious imagination? Notice that on the one hand he claims that he is a conscious craftsman and on the other admits that he does not make an image, “let perhaps, an image be made emotionally in me”. Would you say that the logical or linguistic inconsistency is imaginative or emotional consistency? (MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

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• March 03, 2023

Dylan Thomas's poetry is characterized by rich and evocative imagery, which suggests a depth of imagination that is not fully controlled...

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Write a note on Thomas's use of imagery with reference to the poems you have studied. Attempt a classification in terms of the different registers to which they seem to belong: (MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

(MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

Write a note on Thomas's use of imagery with reference to the poems you have studied. Attempt a classification in terms of the different registers to which they seem to belong: (MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

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• March 03, 2023

Dylan Thomas was a master of poetic imagery, and his work is characterized by vivid, sensory descriptions that transport the reader to a wor...

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Discuss the symbolism of Dylan Thomas: natural, conventional and private. Give examples. (MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

(MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

Discuss the symbolism of Dylan Thomas: natural, conventional and private. Give examples. (MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

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• March 03, 2023

Dylan Thomas is a poet who used various types of symbolism in his work, including natural, conventional, and private symbols. Natural symbol...

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Analyse the use of language and verse in the poems under the following heads: Diction: choice of words or lexical choice and range of vocabulary Syntax: The Noun Phrase, the verb Phrase and conjunctions (e.g. "and" in a Refusal) The sentence and the clause Consider particularly the first sentence running in thirteen lines in A Refusal. Find the subject and the finite verb of the sentence. Consider the clauses. Attempt a paraphrase of the sentence (MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

(MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

Analyse the use of language and verse in the poems under the following heads: Diction: choice of words or lexical choice and range of vocabulary Syntax: The Noun Phrase, the verb Phrase and conjunctions (e.g. "and" in a Refusal) The sentence and the clause Consider particularly the first sentence running in thirteen lines in A Refusal. Find the subject and the finite verb of the sentence. Consider the clauses. Attempt a paraphrase of the sentence (MEG 102) (DYLAN THOMAS)

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• March 03, 2023

Consider the finite verbs of The Force that ... Notice that they are mostly in 'the present indefinite tense form, Compare this with the...

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