Life Challenges and History of Dylan Thomas

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“A worm tells summer better than a clock, the slug’s a living calendar of days: What shall it tell me if a timeless insect, Says the world wears away?” As a young poet Dylan suffered from many things two of which were financial problems and alcoholic abuse. Thomas poems were his way of expressing his feelings and thoughts. Despite Thomas struggles with life, he still managed to become a very successful poet. What transitioned within the young British poet’s life will be the discovery of his personal life, his marriage, his career and his death, and as well as an expounding of two of his poems.
Dylan Thomas was born on October 27, 1914, in Swansea, Glamorgan Wales. (Applebee 1001). Thomas was the youngest child of David John Thomas and Florence Hannah Thomas. He attended Swansea Grammar School, where his father taught as an English literature professor. Although Thomas was a very sickly child who often shied away from school, he preferred reading on his own. Fascinated by language in school, Thomas excelled in English and reading. At the age of sixteen Thomas dropped out of high school to become a junior reporter for the South Wales Daily Post. (Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas: A new life, 2003). During his childhood summers he spent most of his time visiting his grandparents. Although Thomas family struggled from financial problems, he still managed to have an incredible childhood. In December of 1932, he left his job as a reporter and decided to concentrate on his poetry. During this time, Thomas wrote more than half of his collected poems.
In the year of 1934, when Thomas was twenty, he moved to London, and won the Poet’s Corner book prize, where he published his first book, 18 Poems (The Fortune press). The book came from a coll...

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...ncrease. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.” Dylan Thomas poems focused on death, religion, sex, and the love of English. Having a not so good childhood Dylan Thomas left school to pursue a writing career that flourished. While writing as a young artist he found the love of his life Caitlin MacNarma. Shortly after Thomas’s career began to flourish he died of slow death. Despite the hardship Thomas lived, he still managed to achieve his dream as a writer.

Work Cited
Collected Poems, 1934–1952
Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas: A new life, 2003 http://www.poemhunter.com/dylan-thomas/biography/ The Fortune press
Thomas, Dylan. Eight Stories. New Direction Publishing Corp.
80 Eighth Avenue. New York 10011.
Thomas, Dylan. The Language of Literature. Applebee N, Arthur.
Et. Al. Evanston, Il 60204, 2006

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