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Dylan Thomas was born in
Wales in 1914. He went to school until the age of 16 and then dropped out. He excelled in English and reading but disregarded other subjects. His first book written was Eighteen Poems at the age of 20. Dylan wrote a lot of romantic poems. He visited
America first when he was 35. He became very famous there. He was a smoker and a heavy drinker. Dylan Thomas died at the age of 39 after a lot of drinking in
New York City in 1953.

Light breaks where no sun shines
By: Dylan Thomas

Light breaks where no sun shines;
Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart
Push in their tides;
And, broken ghosts with glow-worms in their heads,
The things of light
File through the flesh where no flesh decks the bones.
(Sestet stanza, no repetition, no rhyme, rhythm is 6,10,4,10,4,10. no simile, metaphor, but there is personification. Eg. Where no sea runs.)

A candle in the thighs
Warms youth and seed and burns the seeds of age;
Where no seed stirs,
The fruit of man unwrinkles in the stars,
Bright as a fig;
Where no wax is, the candle shows its hairs.
(Sestet Stanza, repeats Where No, no rhyme, Rhythm is 6,10,4,10,4,10. no personification, similie, metaphor.)

Dawn breaks behind the eyes;
From poles of skull and toe the windy blood
Slides like a sea;
Nor fenced, nor staked, the gushers of the sky
Spout to the rod
Divining in a smile the oil of tears.
(Sestet stanza, no rhyme or repetition. Rhythm is 6,10,4,10,4,10. No personification or Metaphor but Similie: Slides like a sea.)

Night in the sockets rounds,
Like some pitch moon, the limit of the globes;
Day lights the bone;
Where no cold is, the skinning gales unpin
The winter’s robes;
The film of spring is hanging from the lids.
(Sestet stanza, end rhyme robes and globes, no repetition. Rhythm is 6,10,4,10,4,10. No personification or metaphor but Simile: Night in the sockets rounds, Like some pitch moon, the limit of the globes.)

Light breaks on secret lots,
On tips of thought where thoughts smell in the rain;
When logics dies,
The secret of the soil grows through the eye,
And blood jumps in the sun;
Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.
(Sestet Stanza, no Rhyme or repetition. Rhythm is 6,10,4,10,4,10. No simile. Personification: And blood jumps in the sun. Methaphor: The secret of the soil grows through the eye.)

What I liked about this poem is that it use the same Rhythm through out the poem which was 6,10,4,10,4,10. I also liked that he used quite a bit of figurative language and I thought it was somewhat organized. He also used five Sestet Stanzas which I thought was good.
I did not like that the poem had very little Rhyme and repetition. It would have sounded more like a rap then and I thought it would have been more enjoyable. I also did not like that he used very little figurative language and could have had a bit more.