Death
The Grim Reaper has seen better days. Suffice it to say that the big finale for all of us doesn't seem all that big in Thomas's poem. Sure our bones may get picked clean, but we know the physical w...
The Cosmos
The stars aren't just for sci-fi geeks. Poets love them, too. In Thomas's poem, the cosmos represent a world beyond our physical selves. It's where we'll all "rise up" after death and become one wi...
Biblical Sightings
Dylan Thomas definitely had the New Testament in mind when he wrote "And death shall have no dominion." We know the refrain comes from St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, and we also know the idea of...
The Sea
The sea makes a cameo appearance in every stanza. In the first, dead folks are rising up from the bottom. In the second, the sea is depicted as a "winding" kind of place that's similar to life's tw...