2. The views of the mystic in the real world.
3. The midwinter rebirth legends from primitive cultures, the return of the spring.
4. Christian myths with other religions: birth, sacrifice, light, and darkness.
II. Dylan was as productive a writer of stories as he was of poems.
A. Thomas" stories fall under two categories: vigorous poetic fantasies, and poetic objective narrative.
B. "The main characters are madmen, simpletons, fanatics, lechers, and poets in love: people enslaved by the dictates of feelings" (Korg 121).
III. He only completed four scripts but worked on several others as a writer of films.
A. He wrote documentaries for the Ministry of Information during his wartime job.
B. "Cinematic writing made few demands on Thomas's real literary gifts, but it did show that he had an unexpected capacity for adapting himself to the new form, and for persevering with extended projects until they were complete" (Korg 137). .
C. Too many unfinished scripts or aborted projects.
D. Rebecca's Daughters.
Concluding Statement: Dylan Thomas's undeniable originality has set him apart from most people, but he had something in common with nearly every great poet, story-writer, and film-writer, his own style. .
The Works of Dylan Thomas.
Dylan Thomas was a brilliant poet, playwright, short story writer, essayist, screenwriter, journalist, and novelist. His work was known for musical quality of the language, comic or visionary scenes and sensual images. "As he groped among painful and oppressive feelings, turning his thoughts into poems, Thomas was formulating both a mysticism and a poetic style" (Korg 2). Dylan Thomas, renowned for the unique brilliance of his verbal imagery and for his celebration of natural beauty, applies his own unnecessarily complicated and obscure style of writing to his poetry.
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.