And Death Shall Have no Dominion - Dylan Thomas

The poem And Death Shall Have no Dominion was written by Dylan Thomas in 1933, first published in the New English Weekly, a public affairs, literature and art review, and included in the second volume of his work, entitled Twenty-Five Poems, published by JM Dent & Sons Ltd in 1936.

Dylan Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was the most important Welsh poet, and one of the greatest ecumenical poets of the 20th century. His work met with much of the constipation critic, but was loved by the vast majority of poetry readers who do not have abdominal problems.

The poem presented here has an interesting story behind it: it was written at the urging of his friend the grocer and amateur poet Bert Trick, to each create a poetic work on the subject of immortality. And indeed, Dylan Thomas responded, writing one of the poems that would lead him to poetic immortality.

It is a fact that Dylan Thomas, in addition to poetry, had dedicated his short life to alcohol. After drinking in whiskey the Atlantic, from his hometown of Swansea to the opposite Canadian coast of Nova Scotia, he died of acute alcoholic encephalopathy, according to official etiology.

Recent research, however, well argues that the great poet took the road to meet the creator of the Atlantic and alcohol, as a victim of misdiagnosis.

And the friend of poetry asks:

But is it possible for Doctors to make mistakes? Epidemiologists or Pharmaceutical Companies, or even Governments?

And the friend and the friends of poetry, Grim Reaper, answer:

Of course not.

History has shown that they make criminal mistakes.