A Way To Poetry

Dylan Thomas is widely regarded as one of the 20th Century's most influential lyrical poets, and amongst the finest as such of all time. His acclaim is partly due to the force and vitality of his verbal imagery that is uniquely brilliant and inspirational. His vivid and often fantastic imagery was a rejection of the trends in the 20th Century poetics. While his contemporaries gradually altered their writing to serious topical verse, Thomas devoted himself to his passionately felt emotions. Thomas, in many ways, was more in alignment with the Romantics than he was with the poets of his era. He was considered the Shelley of the 20th century as his poems were the perfect embodiments of 'new-romanticism' with their violent natural imagery, sexual and Christian symbolism and emotional subject matter expressed in a singing rhythmical verse. His rich rhetoric and imagery gave his poetry a magical touch. Dylan Thomas attached great importance to the use of imagery, and an understa...

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock BY  T. S. ELIOT           The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock         1.        Let us go then, you and I, 2.       When the evening is spread out against the sky 3.       Like a patient etherized upon a table; 4.       Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, 5.       The muttering retreats 6.       Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels 7.       And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: 8.      Streets that follow like a tedious argument 9.       Of insidious intent 10.   To lead you to an overwhelming question ... 11.    Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” 12.   Let us go an...