And Death Shall Have No Dominion by Dylan Thomas
‘And Death Shall Have No Dominion’ by Dylan Thomas is a poem about death not holding any power over life because eternal life still exists after death.
20th Century Poetry
The Hunchback in the Park | Dylan Thomas
To read the poem, click here. ‘The Hunchback in the Park’ symbolises human isolation, specifically human isolation contrived through the ostracising and denouncement of a hunchback, for reasons relating to both his physical deformity and social destitution. Thomas is keen on producing poetry that looks back to his childhood, and the ‘Hunchback’ is another such …
Postscript | Seamus Heaney
To read the poem, click here. Seamus Heaney produces an ethereal imagery of nature while depicting the life we live in the modern times, being oblivious of the beauty that lies beside us in his poem, ‘Postscript’. Heaney takes a directorial stance to move through different transitions from nature to our human life, often zooming …
Mirror by Sylvia Plath
Read the Poem ‘Mirror by Sylvia Plath’ I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.Whatever I see I swallow immediatelyJust as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.I am not cruel, only truthful‚The eye of a little god, four-cornered.Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.It is pink, with speckles. I have …
Denouement // Sylvia Plath
To read the poem, click here. While it is rooted deeply in Plath’s personal life, her poem ‘Denouement’ becomes universal in exploring the disillusionment from relationships breaking away and of a family life torn apart. Using an extended metaphor of a circus to present the sceptical view of a marriage for show only by bringing …
On Her Blindness | Adam Thorpe
To read the poem, click here. Adam Thorpe’s poem is a cross-reference to John Milton’s sonnet, ‘On His Blindness’ with the slight alteration of the pronoun from ‘his’ to ‘her, where in Milton’s poem, he talks about his own experience of being blind while dwelling on a metaphysical aspect in which he directs his poem …
