Tag Archives: Dylan Thomas

Refusal to Mourn? Just the Opposite

9 children died in yesterday’s Bronx fire, bringing to mind Dylan Thomas’s “Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Burning, of a Child in London.” The poem is not what it seems.

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Where Are the Snows of Yesteryear?

With our first snowfall of the year, I am taken back to the snowfalls of my childhood–and to Dylan Thomas’s “Childhood in Wales.”

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Death Has Made Me Wise, Bitter, Strong

I honor Veterans Day with a Sassoon poem where a veteran remembers fallen comrades.

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Mixed Emotions about My Alma Mater

To understand my feelings of melancholy when I returned to my alma mater, I turned to poems by Lawrence, Housman, and Dylan Thomas.

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When Evil Quotes Dylan Thomas

Tuesday High school English teacher extraordinaire Carl Rosin has several times contributed essays to Better Living through Beowulf, usually writing about his students grappling with ethical issues through a literary lens. (Carl recently served on the National Humanities Center Teacher Advisory Council.) In today’s post we learn about his class exploring what it means for […]

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Refusal to Mourn a Death by Fire?!

How do we process the deaths caused by California’s Camp Fire? Dylan Thomas’s scandalously title “Refusal to Mourn” offers a way.

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Sleeping Outdoors

Poetry adds an extra dimension to sleeping outdoors.

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Please Go Gentle into That Good Night

Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle” can be read as a narcissistic desire by young people that their elders will go out on young people’s terms.

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Walking Out in the Sun of October

As we enter October, revel in Dylan Thomas’ celebration of the season.

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