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Romanticism in Dylan Thomas' poetry
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Dylan Thomas and the experiences of reading
… languages for writing about the poetry of Dylan Thomas. Central to this is an understanding of Thomas’s ambiguity: his poems are fluid and unstable in their influences, semantics, voices, and sounds, and can offer us rich and varied experiences of reading when we give his ambiguities their …
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"As-Yet-Still-Forgiven Past": Dylan Thomas and Nostalgia
Dylan Thomas exhibited a variety of nostalgic influences within his poetry. A careful study of his life will reveal a nostalgia that evolved from adolescent musings upon an ideal past, to a self-destructive urge to return to innocence through death. Thomas incorporates a variety of historical …
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Dylan Thomas and the Metaphysical Mode: A Study of Shared Sensibilities
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Adam Naming And Aesop Fabling: Artist-figures In The Prose Works Of Dylan Thomas
… the rich but relatively neglected prose works of Dylan Thomas, and to examine the numerous self-referential and metafictional instances within them. Many of the prose works contain representational forms such as dreams, fantasies, maps, books, and stories. Also predominant are a variety of artist …
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Poetry in process: The compositional practices of D.H. Lawrence, Dylan Thomas and Philip Larkin
Philip Larkin used the image of Winston Smith's blank notebook in George Orwell's 1984 to illustrate the excitement experienced by the writer faced with an as yet unwritten text. He explains that: the books the past has given us are printed; they are magnificent, but they are finite. Only the blank …
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The Bardic Style In The Poetry Of Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, And Dylan Thomas
… Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, and Dylan Thomas that have been difficult to account for. Although each of these writers is generally engaged with modern poetics and sensitive to the issues of his time, certain characteristics of the work--such as Hopkins' unusual diction, Yeats's …
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An examination of the sacramental vision of Dylan Thomas: its sources, analogues and its expression in his poetry
… and disease gripping society, the voice of Dylan Thomas sounds as a counterpoint, evincing a note of optimism for man and society, expressing a hope that both might achieve reintegration, and, thereby, a new life. This optimistic note, this expression of hope evolved from a vision which …
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Obscurity and the mythic quest for shape: a discussion and explication of Dylan Thomas' Altarwise by Owl-light
Dylan Thomas' obscure sonnet sequence, Altarwise by Owl-light, has "inspired more comment and caused more disagreement than anything else by Thomas." Reading the sequence is like experiencing a confused nightmare or dream vision, for the poem is curiously primitive and myth-like. Through the …
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The Apollonian and Dionysian Modes in Lyric Poetry and Their Development in The Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Dylan Thomas
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Affect, Literature and the Medical Encounter
… and poets such as Munro, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, Tolstoy, Carver, Faulkner and McCullers, amongst others, in the relationships they portray, in their lyrical interrogation of unusual experience, in their examination of the relationship between emotion and reason, and in their …
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Beirdd Gwlad Ffair-rhos a'u Cefndir Diwylliannol a Diwydiannol
… garreg goffa ym mur capel neu eglwys.<br/><br/>Dylanwadwyd ar y beirdd gwlad, yn arbennig ar eu cerddi i fyd natur, gan y Mudiad Rhamantaidd. Ni chanfu'r mwyafrif ohonynt unrhyw brofiad cyfriniol ac ysbrydol yn y byd o'u cwmpas, ond yr oedd natur yn ffenomen weladwy iddynt. Ymatebai Beirdd …
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NOVEL APPROACHES TO TESTING GASTRO INTESTINAL FUNCTION IN VITRO: CONTROLLING SIGNAL ACQUISITION, TISSUE COMPOSITION, OR THE PLATFORM
Propulsion in the gut is orchestrated by a rhythmic complex called the neuromuscular apparatus which includes smooth muscle, enteric neurons, and interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC). Depletions of these cell populations are associated with several motility disorders, and their significant effects on …
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The relationship between sediment composition and infaunal polychaete communities along the southern coast of Namibia
This study examined the relationship between sediment structure and infaunal polychaete communities off the southern coast of Namibia from two separate sets of data, and a total of ninety-two samples. It also examined whether a selected group of organisms (polychaetes) could provide the same level …
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The classics, the cane and rugby : the life of Aubrey Samuel Langley and his mission to make men in the high schools of Natal, 1871-1939
This thesis explores the life; educational philosophy; and legacy of Aubrey Samuel Langley, an influential boys' schoolmaster who went on to lead Durban High School as its headmaster from 1910-1932. The aim of the thesis is to come to terms with the origins of Langley's controversial educational …
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The Force is with You: Dylan Thomas's Force as it Exists in His Poetry and Drama.
<p>In Dylan Thomas's poetry, he refers to an inexorable, amoral force that exists within the universe. This force exists in all things, yet cannot be manipulated. His first collection, <em>18 Poems</em>, serves as the premier source for defining and understanding the existence of this force. Two …