Tag: Elements

• Poem on his Birthday (part iii) – Dylan Thomas

  Stanza 9. The struggle between belief in God and undermining doubt continues from stanza 8, where Thomas ‘prays .. faithlessly to Him‘. The ‘young Heaven’s fold‘ of stanza 7 is now ‘old and air shaped‘ like a blown up balloon, thin-skinned and liable to burst, especially if threatened by ‘souls‘, like Thomas’s, ever disposed to […]

  calgacus83

  4th Apr 2021

  Literature, Philosophy, Poetry, Religion

  Death, Dylan Thomas, Earth, Elements, Genesis, Heaven, Moonshine, Spring