The Force That through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower Analysis

This poem is pretty form-y in lots of the usual ways. The stanzas all have the same number of lines (well, except for that last one, but we'll get to that later), and the lines are, for the most pa...

There's lots we don't know about the speaker in "The Force…," but this much we do know: he's worked up. This speaker is feeling pretty passionate about the whole force thing, and his excitement i...

The setting ranges far and wide in "The Force…" It's kind of like the poem is happening everywhere at once: it's springtime, it's winter, we're in the garden, at sea, in the mountains, at a hangi...

"The Force..." is full of contradictions: creation-destruction, life-death, wet-dry. This idea of opposites, of contradictions, is reflected in the poem's sound. None of the poem's lines, in terms...

You probably noticed that this poem's title and the first line are identical. If you didn't, well, you really need to work on your close-reading skills.Thomas didn't title this poem (and quite a fe...

Dylan Thomas's sound is certainly full of life, but his poems more often contemplate death and destruction. His poems are rarely understated or subtle and his imagery can be downright jarring, thou...

It's going o take some preparation to really enjoy everything this trek has to offer. But if you pack light and watch out for falling metaphors, you'll be happy you made the trip.

The "force" finally caught up with Dylan Thomas and he died in 1953. Check out a picture of the gravesite he shares with his wife, Caitlin Thomas.(Source.)Bob Dylan, Dylan Thomas: is there a connec...

If one was so inclined, they might be able to find a sexual subtext in this one. Things like "flowers," "fevers," "leeching lips" and the like may lend themselves to certain, well, interpretations....