a) How far do you agree with the above assessment of the collection in "Selected Poems"?

Dylan Thomas's "Selected Poems" offers a wide magnitude of poetry, ranging from poems that are filled with exuberant, elaborate, florid words to poems that offer obscure, mysterious insights into metaphor and imagery. We are bombarded with lots of emotion and dropped into an overwhelming world of Dylan Thomas's language to describe his peculiar thoughts of life from his retrospect.

Thomas uses this device of exuberance to bring his poetry to life, forcing the reader to delve into the depths of his writing, with its connotations of religion and sexual overtones. Thomas's use of the life cycle and the virtues of life mainly show the affluence of exuberance in his poems. This exuberance is conveyed to us by literature, which is impressively powerful and extremely emotionally charged. "Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines" is a particular poem which fits the 'exuberant' label. Thomas chooses to shock you by divulging his sickening thoughts about the birth, life and death process. He strays purposely away from the romantic side of the life cycle, by using words that

"In a room with a stuffed fox and a stale fern

Carved birds blunt their striking throats on the salt gravel".

the sequence to end, the being is dead an buried in what seems to be an open grave, whilst nature tries to keep the existence alive with glow worms and the dawn light, the being cannot survive symbolising the end of the era.

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