A Famous Welsh Poet: Dylan Thomas

                                                                                                                                            Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet who wrote exclusively in English. He was  born on 27 October 1914 in the Uplands area of Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales. His father, David John Thomas, was an English master and his mother, was a dressmaker born in Swansea. Thomas had one sister, her name was  Nancy. In November 1934, he wrote and published his first collection of poems. He married Caitlin Macnamara in 1937 and they had 3 children.
        Later, he wrote many poems about the war. Dylan Thomas is a romantic poet. His best known poem is "And death shall have no dominion. Dylan Thomas drank a lot of alcohol. He died on November the 9th, 1953 in New york because he had a pneumonia. He died very young.




Example of poem:            Clown in the Moon

              My tears are like the quiet drift

              Of petals from some magic rose;

              And all my grief flows from the rift

              Of unremembered skies and snows.

                                   

              I think that if I touched the earth,

              It would crumble;

              It is so sad and beautiful,

              So tremulously like a dream.

Answer these 2 questions:

1/ When did he die ?
2/ Who was his wife ?






Written by Mathilde