In my craft or sullenart by Dylan Thomas

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How does the speaker see his "art" according to the first stanza?
What words suggest that the business of creating poetry is hard work?
Thaomas was famous for transferring words that suggest a specific mood or emotion to ordinary nouns, for example, "the moon rages" and "singing light". What could these constructions mean?
Is the speaker describing the moon and the light, or something else?
What word or words are repeated?
What effect is created as a result?
How many rhyme-end sounds are there in the whole poem, and how are these laid out?
How does the poet's careful use of rhyme underline the theme of the poem?
Why does the poet refer to his pages as "spindrift"?
What does this suggest about the nature of poetry?
What is the central irony suggested thoughout this poem?

Marion Louisa Le Roux, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 08:56 (nineteen years ago)

Why are people too lazy to do their own homework? How is anyone ever going to learn anything if they get an internet user group to answer it? Why are all literary homework questions so dumb? Why is there always a question about irony in literature homework? Why don't you post a picture of yourself in a bikini?

Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

I would, but that would empty the forum quicker than 15 homework questions.

SRH (Skrik), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

How does the speaker see his "art" according to the first stanza?
It's the fucking bomb.

What words suggest that the business of creating poetry is hard work?
All of them. Poetry ISN'T hard work, it just looks like it in the hands of inept fuckers like Thomas.

Thaomas was famous for transferring words that suggest a specific mood or emotion to ordinary nouns, for example, "the moon rages" and "singing light". What could these constructions mean?
The moon leads a party lifestyle while the light is more into burning stuff (it's well known that "singing" was a typo for "singeing", woulda thought your teacher'd follow the current version of the poem)

Is the speaker describing the moon and the light, or something else?
The moon and the light. Symbols weren't invented yet when Thomas was around. It's something teachers started forcing upon old poems back in the mid-80s, after Rolf Wome's "Bone-fire of the manatees" came out.

What word or words are repeated?
Uh, I dunno, man, who cares.

What effect is created as a result?
Boredom.

How many rhyme-end sounds are there in the whole poem, and how are these laid out?
None. They're not laid out in any fucking way, since there aren't any.

How does the poet's careful use of rhyme underline the theme of the poem?
It doesn't. It's just fucking rhyme.

Why does the poet refer to his pages as "spindrift"?
Because he's a pretentious old fucker (and he's dead lol)

What does this suggest about the nature of poetry?
That it's fucking stupid.

What is the central irony suggested thoughout this poem?
The poetry is useless yet idiots devote their fucking life to it.

Lemme know if you need any more help, sis. Holla!

Jonathan Racklemeyer, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

How does the speaker see his "art" according to the first stanza?

As a solitary, unremunerative way of celebrating love.

What words suggest that the business of creating poetry is hard work?

Exercise. Labor

Thaomas was famous for transferring words that suggest a specific mood or emotion to ordinary nouns, for example, "the moon rages" and "singing light". What could these constructions mean?

'The moon rages' describes the intensity of our reaction to moonlight (especially in contrast to the stillness of the night) and correlates with the passion of the lovers. 'Singing light' refers both to the joy of reading well-written poetry but also to the 'truth' that it contains.

Is the speaker describing the moon and the light, or something else?


What word or words are repeated?

Omitting the obvious 'the, my,' etc... Griefs, arms, wages, pages, craft, art.

What effect is created as a result?

They are underlined or highlit.

How many rhyme-end sounds are there in the whole poem, and how are these laid out?

I think you can handle this one.

How does the poet's careful use of rhyme underline the theme of the poem?

craft, innit?

Why does the poet refer to his pages as "spindrift"?

He is comparing his art to a force of nature, casting over the water like windblown sea-spray. See 'The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower'.

What does this suggest about the nature of poetry?

Like Rimbaud referring to himself as merely a trumpet through which his art was blown, it suggests a non-rational and impersonal source for art.

What is the central irony suggested thoughout this poem?

That the people for whom he is writing won't ever care and that they're right not to.

M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Why give serious answers to lazy fuckers? It only encourages them.

Ray (Ray), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

'Cause I intentionally omitted something massively important. Ssssshhh.

M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

I predict you all will be getting the email I got. Or something like it.

SRH (Skrik), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Never put your real email on this site! People will contact you and they are generally weird.

Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

She sent me another one. I think she likes the thought of my bikini picture.

SRH (Skrik), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

These homework threads. They sadden me inexplicably. It's a fucking 20-line poem, readily available. READ IT FOR YOURSELF. Then turn on your brain and think about what you read.

Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Thank god the internets didn't exist when I was a student.

Fluffy Bear (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 11 May 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)


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