Thomas: A womb-tomb Poet

Dylan Thomas himself called his poetry womb-tomb and tomkQ.1. D womb poetry. Thus he means to say that birth and death, destruction and creation are his main concerns. He is no doubt p with disease and death, suffering and pain. Sex, the human anatony copulation and birth, figure prominently in his lyrics.

His treatmeu of sex is uninhibited and this has exposed him to the charge o ob obscenity and of wallowing in sexuality. However, to limit his t in this way is contrary to facts. Agrecing with Clark Emery we can that Thomas deals not only with birth and death but also with sort of human relationship. He writes not only of mortality but abe on the possibility of immortality to say, as is commonly said, that fot Thomas all is womb-tomb is wrong, because he has written poems on innumerable topics such as friendship, tyranny, rebellion, faithae reason, science and myth, dogma and free thought, body and sonto and above all love. With Donne, Blake, Whitman, and Lawrence begh raises sex to love without emasculation. He is not out of accord witho Whitman and Hardy in their tenderness ior life, human and natural No doubt, Dylan has his faults but such faults do not take him awa from his real greatness.