Dylan Thomas

The poems, “The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower,” and “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” written by Dylan Thomas, are filled with imagery that is harsh, yet filled with compelling beauty. The insistent rhythm, the reinforcing of images, the diction, contrast, and the repetitive construction all combines to convey the phases, changes, and cycle of life. In Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” he writes in …

…that there is an infinite continuation of life-cycles. (Emery, 272) The poem, therefore itself, becomes a cycle and a perfect circle, combining conception, birth, growth, and death, all part of the same process. In the poems, “The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower,” and “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” Dylan Thomas, uses imagery, rhythm, repetition, and diction in order to create themes and an impression about the cycle of life.