S/LI/56. When you compare Dylan Thomass early poetry (say, up to 1938), with that written after this date, what differences do you find in style and vision, and what continuities?

This essay examines the continuities and differences in style and vision that can be seen over the course of Dylan Thomas's poetry. It examines poems from all his major collections, and looks at the themes of birth, copulation, death, religion and the procceses of writing itself, which Thomas most frequently employed. It also features a comparison of how these themes progressed over the course of his career, considering poems such as 'I see the boys of summer', 'Where once the twilight', 'My world is pyramid', 'If my head hurt a hair's foot', 'After the funeral' and 'Fern Hill'.