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The 19th-century Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas, is a prolific poet of his time. He is well known for delineating his emotional self. His poems ascertain the trajectory of life and living, hope and aspiration, time and place, nostalgia and memory and death and dying. The most significant aspect of his poetry appears to be the re-association and reorientation of his past. This particular paper concentrates on the select poems, namely "A Poem in October" (1944) and "Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night" (1951) where there is a spontaneous growth of time past and time present. His childhood innocence and youthful vigour occupy a special place in his poetry. The element of time sets to unite his thoughts with his actions. His poetic persona resonates between memory and recollection. This paper sets out to explore the idea of memory as a contemplating agent that strives as the primary advocate of all human perception.
Dr. Chandrima Sen. “Analyzing Select Poems of Dylan Thomas from the Lens of Memory Studies.” The Criterion: An International Journal in English, vol. 17, no. 2, Apr. 2026, pp. 416–426. DOI, https://doi.org/10.66376/criterion.v17.n2.25.
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