37. The first is this: that Thomas's
commitment to a resolution of all dualities work further to the obscurity
of his style than has over been suggested, because it tends to break down
the distinction between tenor and vehicle in the use of metaphoric language.
Where all positive phenomena are to be accepted on equal terms, a gradual
evening out of emphasis must follow. The peculiar density of Thomas's poems
springs from this levelling-out:
A grief ago,
She who was who I hold, the fats and flowers,
Or, water-lammed, from the scythe--sided thorn,
Hell wind and sea,
A stem cementing? Wrestled up the tower
One's first impression that it is impossible to determine
what is metaphoric and what is not, is correct: for in the end, nothing
is metaphoric - the loved wman 1 not merely like the fats of the earth
or its flower; being consubstantial with them, she Is them
Martin Dodsworth The Concept of Mind and the Poetry
of Dylan Thomas. From the book: Dylan Thomas. New Critical Essays. Edited
by Walford Davis. J.M.Dent & Sons. Ltd. London. 1972. P.p. 131-132.
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