“Twenty-four years remind the tears of my eyes.(Bury the dead for fear that they walk to the grave in labour.)In the groin of the natural doorway I crouched like a tailorSewing a shroud for a journeyBy the light of the meat-eating sun.Dressed to die, the sensual strut begun,With my red veins full of money,In the final direction of the elementary townI advance as long as forever is.” I’m twenty-four very soon and I share a certain sense of affinity with this poem. Sometimes it’s tricky to kno

Not for me. I enjoyed a couple of them but a lot of them all kind of blurred into one and made it a difficult read. I struggle with poetry though and especially collections from a single author. But worth a try! If you’re anything like me get yourself a collection from lots of different poets, that variety often helps if you struggle to read poetry as I do.

I tried... I really did. I read a good twenty poems before this decision and there was only one I liked. It takes a very special poet to grab me and, as sad as this makes me, Dylan just wasn't the one. Was really rooting for this because of our Welsh connection :( maybe I'll try his play instead.

It took me reading this whole book until the end to realize Dylan Thomas is the author of the famous poem that is repeated countless times in Interstellar and that I've quoted myself as well sometimes. I'm very hard to please as poetry is concerned, and although I love Thomas's subtle but complex style, this just isn't going into my "looking forward to reading again" list. Here have some gems though:Were that enough, enough to ease the pain,Feeling regret when this is wasted That made me happy i...

93.Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

"Out of confusion, as the way is,And the wonder that man knows,Out of the chaos would come bliss."

What can one say about Dylan Thomas that has not been said? I suspect I start many of my reviews of classic books like that, but it's true -- I don't know where to start. Dylan Thomas' poetry is amazing, particularly the ones like 'Prologue', where the first line rhymes with the last, the second with the penultimate line, etc... and it's 102 lines long. I love the ones that work with content appropriate to the form, like the perennial example of his villanelle, 'Do not go gentle into that good n...

Featuring a broad selection of the poems of Dylan Thomas, from his first published collection to his death, Selected Poems gives a credible account of the life's work of the Welsh poet, including both his most famous and some of his more obscure works - 70 in total. As a poet Thomas is an esoteric and complex one, but is also vital and hugely rewarding. His poetry, in and of itself, ranges from being beautifully lyrical (particularly the later poems) to technically complex and intricately meter

It just seems appropriate to wallow in a little Dylan Thomas this month, all Welsh darkness and the world turning old. I like how intense he is. I like his use of symbols from nature. But mostly I like that he once said he was "at the mercy" of words. Just the words, themselves, not even what they mean. So you have to give it a shot. He is famous for some of the one liners - "do not go gentle into that good night" - and he surely did not. He died far too early, at 39, drinking and carousing. But...

On Belatedly Reading Dylan Thomas for the First TimeMy God, I’ve blundered intoa fairy-tale forest, thick whiskey-cloying dark, yellow eyeslurking, trees charred to ashstill bearing rotten fruit. The tasteof blood and plums. Christbreaking on the cobblestones.Death’s feather, not raven butpeacock, teasing the keys fromthe lock, the locks from the knot,across the worm-eaten pillow Ilie lost, seduced, buried in moss,waiting for the white horsesto drown me like sorrow.

I love poetry in general. This collection made it very clear however, that I do not like, do not understand and do not enjoy the poetry of Dylan Thomas. Every poem just sounds like random words thrown together, like an attempt to name some indie band. He uses a great many adjectives that give his poetry the appearance of beauty but really serve no purpose. It's all completely subjective of course, but I'd like to read something that sounds like somewhat coherent English, instead or random words

Favourite: Do not go gentle into that dark night...

“And the daughters of darkness flame like Fawkes fires still.”Not my cup of tea sadly

These selected poems of Dylan Thomas are beautiful to read, sound beautiful, and are beautiful to think about long after the book has been put down. Thomas’s talent for framing a poem in lyrical verse, while maintaining a contemporary sense of subject and theme, is impressive and succeeds in creating a lasting impact on the reader. As a writer, I view Thomas’s poems as the type of lyricism and imagery that I would like to include in the more stream of consciousness elements I envision for m...

Dylan Thomas was gifted with words. Some staggering lines; surprising verb choices, strong nouns and great alliteration, among other things. But there is a reason that "Fern Hill" and "Do Not Go Gentle" are the only ones you've heard of (and Fern Hill, by the way, is one of my favorite poems ever). Most of the others are just not that awesome. Or appropriate. Or even intelligible, sometimes. Ones I starred were few: "This Bread I Break," "Here In This Spring," "Why East Wind Chills," "The Hand T...

This is a nicely edited collection of Thomas’s finest poems, presented beautifully with a lengthy introduction and a bumper set of notes.

Wow. Dylan Thomas was intense. I find his poetry very very difficult to understand. I put the 2 "very"s on it for emphasis. I liked his poetry from later in life a lot better than his earlier poetry. His earlier poetry puts off a vibe of just trying to be clever and strange. Later, he was still clever and strange, but somehow with greater purpose. There's always mystery in his poems. Which I like. It's strange to think that his most famous poem "do not go gentle into that good night" was written...

As always with Dylan Thomas, the first impression is not going to be the last one. Rereading the poems or reading them over and over again, they unravel the mysteries they first invent with at first sight seemingly inappropriate expressions and words that finally find their place in the poem and could not have been better chosen. From easily accessable lyric like 'The force that through the green fuse drives the flower' or 'Death shall have no dominion' of his earlier years to more complicated p...

I gave this five stars. I didn't like it enough for five stars, but this is my major problem with Goodreads. Thomas' poems are obviously hugely important to 20th century poetry, and the there were many poems in this collection, including all the famous ones, that I really love. For the most part though, I read this before going to bed and in between doing actual work. Thomas's voice is heavy, laden with primal images and constantly reverting to the landscape of Western Wales. Or what other books...

Some of the most jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring, envy-inciting poems I've ever had the privilege of reading (and continuously rereading).This collection is very tight - all of the works fit neatly together, and the lack of variation in poetic maturity throughout is once again mind-boggling. To think of the young age at which Thomas began writing is truly remarkable, and it's almost unbelievable how he retained his creative powers throughout his career.If ever I am in doubt of anything in my life, f...