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  • "And Death Shall Have No Dominion"

    Wednesday, Jun 4, 2008 4:19PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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    I was in a Glastonbury bookstore with Charlie yesterday, trying very hard to find a special gift for someone, when I suddenly came across an old, musty, and crumbling anthology of Dylan Thomas poems.  Thrilled, I opened it to the Table of Contents and, to my great disappointment, found that it didn't contain my favorite of Thomas' poems, "And Death Shall Have No Dominion."  I decided against taking the anthology back across the pond with me, but thought the poem might be of interest to some of you.  I've copied and pasted it below.  -Dax

                 AND DEATH SHALL HAVE NO DOMINION

                 By Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

    And death shall have no dominion.
    Dead men naked they shall be one
    With the man in the wind and the west moon;
    When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
    They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
    Though they go mad they shall be sane,
    Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
    Though lovers be lost love shall not;
    And death shall have no dominion.
     
    And death shall have no dominion.
    Under the windings of the sea
    They lying long shall not die windily;
    Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
    Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
    Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
    And the unicorn evils run them through;
    Split all ends up they shan't crack;
    And death shall have no dominion.
     
    And death shall have no dominion.
    No more may gulls cry at their ears
    Or waves break loud on the seashores;
    Where blew a flower may a flower no more
    Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
    Though they be mad and dead as nails,
    Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
    Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
    And death shall have no dominion.

Entry comments (8)

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  • rottendoubt
    posted on Saturday, Jun 7, 2008 2:42AM [Report]
    wow, very nice...
  • issue76
    posted on Friday, Jun 6, 2008 12:27AM [Report]
    See you have been inspired by the celtic vibe in Glastonbury  and the Great Welsh Poet Mr Thomas.

    Ashame you didn't buy the anthology.
  • JoanneSanderson
    posted on Thursday, Jun 5, 2008 5:04PM [Report]
    28 years in England and I am ashamed to admit I've never been to Glastonbury.

    I'd like to be as articulate as Lydia here, but I'll just nod, because she sums it up perfectly with the comparisons.
  • elle75
    posted on Thursday, Jun 5, 2008 1:37PM [Report]
    Did you find what you're looking for at...Glastonbury?
    This poem is so dark :-(
  • Jaine
    posted on Thursday, Jun 5, 2008 6:09AM [Report]
    interesting

    cool, your in Glastonbury - I'm jealous!
  • PPPIRJ
    posted on Thursday, Jun 5, 2008 2:17AM [Report]
    Interesting and very dark...Like Edgar Allen Poe's Raven...."Never more".
  • lydiakuan
    Official artist
    posted on Thursday, Jun 5, 2008 1:26AM [Report]
    I like the imagery,the comparisons used that juxtapose each other,there is a sense of renewed hope in the bleakest,deadest and inanimate of things.
  • lydiakuan
    Official artist
    posted on Wednesday, Jun 4, 2008 5:51PM [Report]
    Nice. I see,we're getting less angsty now than "howl".:)

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