In my Craft or Sullen Art Dylan Thomas is letting us in on who he is writting his poetry to. Within
this poem he uses many personifications such as the towering dead or the raging moon. In adding these personifications he
is providing us emotions that we would not nessisarly feel if this poem lacked them.
With this peom he clearly is saying that he is not writing peotry for the pompus or the those who have already passed
away. Dylan instead says that he is writting for the sake of the lovers, who even though they regect his craft, still need
a voice.
Death Shall have No Domain is one of Dylans many poems that link humans to the after world. Dylan was a king of
personification in which he would create pictures in our heads that in many cases we would never see otherwise. In this poem
Dylan is personifying wind as a man as well as human elbows and knees as stars.
This poem gives us an insight at what Dylan thought. It explains how after we die and out bodys of this world are gone
that we truly become free and are able to fly with the wind and live among the stars. It also talks about how thinking of
death makes us mad but after death (when death no longer has power) we are truly sain.
John Spencer
