Dylan Thomas, el hijo de la ola: Una aproximación a su poesía temprana

Abstract

This article places the poetry of Dylan Thomas within the literary and cultural context of the 1930s, then dominated by Yeats, Eliot and Auden. It describes the reception of 18 Poems and Thomas’s participation in the great surrealist exhibition of 1936. Given Thomas’s talent not only to write but also to make public readings of his poetry, it underscores the sonorous aspects around which his compositions are built. Finally, it analyzes examples of three main themes which permeate the early poetry of this Welsh poet: dreams of genesis, the task of the poet and the vital cycle.