Dylan Thomas' style in Under Milk Wood.
Dylan Thomas was born in 1914 and lived for many years in a small
Welsh town called Laugharne. He could speak not a single word of
Welsh. The piece called 'Under Milk Wood' was finished just short of a
month before he passed away. It was commissioned by the BBC to be
broadcasted on the National radio. This meant that it was broadcasted
with no costumes, no props and no visual imagery to excite the
audience. Dylan Thomas' radio play had to entertain the audience by
the spoken word only. The style and language in Under Milk Wood is
therefore very important. Under Milk Wood uses throughout the play an
opaque and poetic style giving the listener an impression of fluency
and flowing. We propose to contrast this style with others that are
used in Under Milk Wood.
The first style in Under Milk Wood is an opaque poetic style, which
Thomas uses to perfection; it is used to describe the strange and
unusual inhabitants of Llareggub and their day-to-day activities.
There are many different techniques that are used that help build up
an atmosphere that is normally created through the use of actors and
costumes but as Under Milk Wood was broadcasted and not meant to be
performed upon a stage with an audience. One way to introduce an
atmosphere is to bring songs into the play as a sombre song will make
a sombre mood. Dylan Thomas uses songs through out the play to reflect
on the atmosphere, a song such as Tom, Dick and Harry produces
emotions "O Tom, Dick & Harry were three fine men" the whole song is
very sombre and is a technique that wasn't used in very many plays. It
is very effective and the songs are repeated again numerous times
throughout the play this use of familiar ...
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...uteous". The rhythm of the poem is also too
regular, which creates boredom far apart from the poetic technique
that Dylan Thomas employs.
Dylan Thomas shows that he is capable of writing in a good number of
different styles and proves that he is able to recreate the atmosphere
although he is not able to use the devises of a stage performance. He
is able to recreate this through his mastery of the English language
mastering metaphors, similes and transferred Epithets. Dylan Thomas
shows in Under Milk Wood that he is Able to write in the opaque poetic
style but is also able to contrast this with other popular styles. The
poetic devises that Dylan Thomas does use can sometimes be described
as strange and opaque it's quite similar to the device employed by
poets but it does do the job and is very affective at attaining the
reader's attention and keeping it.
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