TY  - JOUR
TT  - Apotheosis of Mortal Man: Stellar and Terrestrial Imagery in Dylan Thomas’s Poetry
AU  - Öz, Fahri
PY  - 2016
DA  - October
Y2  - 2016
DO  - 10.21547/jss.265483
JF  - Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
JO  - GAUN-JSS
PB  - Gaziantep Üniversitesi
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1303-0094
SP  - 1044
EP  - 1053
VL  - 15
IS  - 4
KW  - Tanrısallaştırma
KW  - Yeniden Doğuş
KW  - Paganizm
KW  - Yıldızlar
KW  - Yeryüzü
KW  - Ağıt
KW  - Pastoral
KW  - Gelenek
N2  - Dylan Thomas’s poetry is replete with the images oflife and death and their cyclicality and rebirth. Such images include starsthat stand for human beings’ potential to reach godly heights on the one hand,and the grass that symbolizes their mortality on the other. Such images appearmost prominently in his elegies “After the Funeral”, “And death shall have nodominion”, “Do not go gentle into that good night” and “Fern Hill”, whichharbours pastoral elements. The images in these poems can be treated as astrong sign of his interest in paganism. The analysis of such images can provide us with clues about theelucidation of Thomas’s marginal yet indispensible place within English poetrysince these images attest to the fact that he was not only influenced byEnglish Romantic poets like John Keats but also Nineteenth-century Americanpoets like Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman.    
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