To read the poem, click here. Dylan Thomas is a prolific poet with a knack in directly addressing the adversities of humankind, which often pertains the prospect of death. ‘And Death Shall Have No Dominion’ is a poem that reverberates with a resolution of death not holding any power over life, for beyond death still …
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 …
In the Elizabethan Jacobean period, the work of Senecan revenge drama was interwoven in the English stage, with dramatists often cleaving to the dynamics of Senecan literature, Shakespeare being no different. Hamlet has aspects of a typical Seneca drama braided into its structure, from the existence of a ghost catalysing the requisite of vengeance to …
