DYLAN THOMAS’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS DEATH IN THE POEM “AFTER THE FUNERAL”
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5212/uniletras.v24i1.250Abstract
O poeta gaulês Dylan Thomas escreveu vários poemas tratando da morte de outras pessoas. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a atitude do poeta diante da morte, conforme se evidencia no poema “After the funeral,” um poema dedicado à sua tia Annie Jones, e compará-la com a visão sobre a morte e o morrer segundo a tradição cristã. Neste poema, memória e exuberância verbal se entrelaçam numa elegia cheia de emoção e crítica à hipocrisia da sociedade. Evidencia-se claramente a dificuldade que o ser humano tem de lidar com honestidade e franqueza com a realidade da morte.
Palavras-chave: morte; memória; luto e rito
Dylan Thomas wrote several poems dealing with the death of another person. The objective of this article is to analyse Dylan Thomas’s attitude towards death, as can be deduced from his poem “After the funeral,” dedicated to his aunt Annie Jones, and compare it with the view of death and dying, according to Christian tradition. In this specific poem, memory and verbal exuberance mingle in an elegy full of emotion and criticism of social hypocrisy. People´s difficult in facing the reality of death with honesty and frankness is clearly evident.
Key words: death; memory; grief and ritual
Downloads
Issue
Section
License
Authors that publish in the journal agree with the following terms:
a) The authors keep the copyright and grant to the journal the rights of the first publication, with the work simultaneously being licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License that allows the sharing of the work with the recognition both of the authorship and the initial publication in this journal.
b) This journal provides immediate public access to all of its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge freely available to the public provides greater worldwide democratization of knowledge. For more information about this approach, visit Public Knowledge Project, a Project that developed this system to improve the academic and public quality of research, distributing OJS as well as other softwares to support the publication system to public/open access to academic sources. Names and e-mail addresses in this website will be used exclusively for this journal purposes, not being available for other ends.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.