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Dylan is also speaking to his father in this poem, for he tells him "Do not go gentle into that good night/Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Thematically, this poem is a reflection of Dylan Thomas's great genius, for it illustrates man's "struggle from darkness to light;" Dylan "uncovered the darkness in us that we should otherwise not have known and brought us to a light we should not otherwise have seen" (Olson 89).

In conclusion, it would be safe to say that Dylan Thomas, while growing up and maturing in the small Welsh village of Swansea, saw this place as a protective barrier against the outside world, meaning that he was protected from becoming part of a literary clique which caused him to transform into a superb and original poet. As Clark Emery understands it, in Swansea "the young men had time to formulate their own artistic values, create their own techniques and find their own modes of expression untouched by fashion or style," an environment which Dylan Thomas certainly exploited to the penultimate degree.Bibliography

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