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PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 2:41 am 
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Dylan Thomas reciting his villanelle 'Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night'


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 2:44 am 
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John Cale - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night


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For those who prefer the written word:


Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on that sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:39 pm 
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Thanks Mal.... looking for my guy Richard Burton reciting "Do not go gentle..."

Burton did meet Dylan Thomas.

I found Anthony Hopkins... another one of us Welsh guys......

Anthony Hopkins reads Dylan Thomas


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I didn't know Hopkins was a Welshman!

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Report to my office... Hopkins is very Welsh... very much a fan of Burton himself.

I have several reference books about the particular (famous) Welsh village where I was born.... one old photo shows Anthony Hopkins.

Not from same village but us Welsh guys all must have been to some of same places.

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Burton... different poem


Richard Burton reads 'Elegy' (for his father) by Dylan Thomas



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This poem was left unfinished at Dylan Thomas' death. The first seventeen lines were untouched, but the rest was reconstructed/edited from Thomas' manuscript by his friend Vernon Watkins.

Too proud to die; broken and blind he died
The darkest way, and did not turn away,
A cold kind man brave in his narrow pride

On that darkest day, Oh, forever may
He lie lightly, at last, on the last, crossed
Hill, under the grass, in love, and there grow

Young among the long flocks, and never lie lost
Or still all the numberless days of his death, though
Above all he longed for his mother's breast

Which was rest and dust, and in the kind ground
The darkest justice of death, blind and unblessed.
Let him find no rest but be fathered and found,

I prayed in the crouching room, by his blind bed,
In the muted house, one minute before
Noon, and night, and light. the rivers of the dead

Veined his poor hand I held, and I saw
Through his unseeing eyes to the roots of the sea.
(An old tormented man three-quarters blind,

I am not too proud to cry that He and he
Will never never go out of my mind.
All his bones crying, and poor in all but pain,

Being innocent, he dreaded that he died
Hating his God, but what he was was plain:
An old kind man brave in his burning pride.

The sticks of the house were his; his books he owned.
Even as a baby he had never cried;
Nor did he now, save to his secret wound.

Out of his eyes I saw the last light glide.
Here among the light of the lording sky
An old man is with me where I go

Walking in the meadows of his son's eye
On whom a world of ills came down like snow.
He cried as he died, fearing at last the spheres'

Last sound, the world going out without a breath:
Too proud to cry, too frail to check the tears,
And caught between two nights, blindness and death.

O deepest wound of all that he should die
On that darkest day. oh, he could hide
The tears out of his eyes, too proud to cry.

Until I die he will not leave my side.)

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And Death Shall Have No Dominion

And death shall have no dominion.
Dead man naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.

And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.

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Biography of Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself. His public readings, particularly in America, won him great acclaim; his sonorous voice with a subtle Welsh lilt became almost as famous as his works. His best-known works include the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood and the celebrated villanelle for his dying father, "Do not go gentle into that good night". Appreciative critics have also noted the craftsmanship and compression of poems such as "In my Craft or Sullen Art", and the rhapsodic lyricism in "And death shall have no dominion" and "Fern Hill".

More at link: http://www.poemhunter.com/dylan-thomas/biography/

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I agree with that biography. What a beautiful voice he has. You Welsh have been blessed!

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Poem in October


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IMO no-one can read poetry quite like the late Richard Burton, I've seen recently a lot of documentaries about him, he was very good and kind to his family up to the end.

He's irreplaceable. He also had a huge library of books in his Switzerland home, he loved books.

Nice job here RT

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Dylan Thomas died in St Vincent's Hospital, New York, on this day November 9th 1953

Dylan Thomas (1 of 3) B&W Film with Richard Burton





Dylan Thomas (2 of 3) B&W Film with Richard Burton





Dylan Thomas (3 of 3) B&W Film with Richard Burton


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Dylan Thomas - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night - Full Lecture by Dr. Andrew Barker


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