1. Dylan Thomas (1914-53)

2. Features of his poety He was the most important modern Welsh poet who wrote brilliant, passionate poetry, full of the music and imagination that are typical of the Welsh.

3. Features of his poetry His language is full of life, energy and feeling, with great strength and power. His work praises and delights in natural forces: The life of nature and the countryside, the forces of birth, sex and death, and the powerful feelings that they create.

4. Do not go gentle into that good night This is another famous poem which was written to his father as he lay dying; his father had been very powerful in the expression of his ideas and feelings, and it hurt him to see that the old man could not use that power to fight his coming death: Do not go gentle into that good night: Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

5. Fern Hill 1.the title name of the poet’s aunt’s farm where he spent his summer vacations in his childhood.

6. Fern Hill 2.main ideas 1) The poem is nostalgical recollections of his childhood spent in his aunt’s farm and an idyllic sketch of a farm of child’s interpretation of the world; 2) passage of time and mortality.

7. Fern Hill 3.artistic features 1) images and symbols; 2)highly flexible use of the English language: of phrases and idioms.