More than a lullaby: Dylan Thomas' attitude towards death in the poem "In Country Sleep"

Resumo

Dylan Thomas wrote several poems dealing with the problem of death. Some of them deal not only with the death of an individual but with the end of the whole humankind. “In Country Sleep” is a poem that brings this wider perspective about death, the death of the human race. This poem was dedicated to Thomas’s daughter Aeronwy, and deals with the human life in its wider, cosmic perspective. The objective of this article is to analyse Dylan Thomas’s attitude towards death according to this poem, and to compare it to the Christian tradition view of death.