A young man’s view of mortality

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A young man’s view of mortality

Greg Judkins
Lightning dark clouds CR Johannes Plenio on Unsplash
Wise people and others whose words “forked no lightning” may want to rail against their own passing [Image: Johannes Plenio on Unsplash]

Greg Judkins looks at a well-known poem which shakes a fist at death and its inevitability

It is not until the last stanza that the poem becomes very personal Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet and this column looks at his most famous poem,