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신현호 한국영어영문학회 경남지부 1994 현대영미어문학 Vol.11 No.-
Dylan Thomas was in a rather peculiar position among the contemporary poets. Pound, Eliot, Yeats and Auden all represent an intellectualization of the poetic world or an implied view of poetry as social achievement. On the other hand, Thomas takes an attitude of antithetical movement such as William Blake. Thomas' whole interest was in the self-exploration. He, casting light on the dark interior of the self, tried to discover himself. His poetry explores the subject of birth and death, creation and destruction in terms of primitivism, pantheism and finally love of man, accepting and celebrating the tragic human condition. In his early poetry based upon the "womb and tomb" motif, he attempted to overcome the fear of death by firmly believing the coexistence of birth and death. What Thomas found to symbolize this belief was the womb where birth and death seems to coexist. And he considered death as a part of nature's process. His poetry of the muddle period shows a greater involvement with others, as "A Refusal to Mourn the Death" and "After the funeral", he does not deny the death of all things, including himself, but in anticipating this necessary destruction within poems and by participating in it, Thomas can overcome the fear of death. And the final period, characterized by longer, narrative poems like "Fern Hill" or "Poem in October" is one of acceptance of humanity and the tragic condition of man, or a movement toward affirmation and a conditional consent to the presence of death in life. Though Thomas dealt with the familiar theme to us, he dealt with it in a strange, surprising way. His originality and worthiness lies in the technique rather than themes. In talking of the change of technique, Thomas's idiosyncratic language in his early poem is the reflection both of joy in playing with words and of a necessity to express the ineffable unity of the universe. While Thomas' middle period shows a greater concern with the specifics of eternal reality displaced the primary vision, so that in the later poems ultimate realities are approached through nature and daily life instead of visionary imagery.