I. Dylan’s obscure poems contained elements of surrealism and personal fantasy, which is what draws readers to them to reveal the universality of the experiences with which they are concerned.

1. “Continuity between nature and the Stories of Christ and Adam” (Korg 42).

2. Semantic properties of language are possessed by the natural world.

3. Conflicts preceding the mystical resolution.

4. Personal statement as dramatic monologue.

1. Dylan’s reaction to other people.

2. “Immortal companionship of matter and spirit” (Korg 62).

3. “The duality of time as it is manifested in the alternation of the seasons” (Korg 67).

4. “Relationships with other people and with external scenes and events as episodes in the drama of spiritual life” (Korg 70).

1. “These later poems were usually written in response to some particular experience rather than to experience in general

1. “The Altarwise by owl-light sequence is an intricately ambiguous, punning fabric in which Thomas carries his linguistic and rhetorical virtuosity to extremes, producing a result both more complex and more obscure than any of the other works” (Korg 100)

A. Thomas’ stories fall under two categories: vigorous poetic fantasies, and poetic objective narrative.

C. Too many unfinished scripts or aborted projects.

episodes in the drama of spiritual life” (Korg 70). As Thomas learns to accept experiences rather than insisting upon the variety of forms it assumes in the fullness of time, his works become simpler and more direct.

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