Dylan Thomas's poem "And death shall have no dominion" explores the idea that death is not the end, and one's spirit lives on even after death of the physical body. The poem has three stanzas with nine lines each, repeating the line "And death shall have no dominion" at the beginning and end to emphasize that death does not have power over humanity. Thomas draws on biblical references of resurrection as well as the notion that one's life force becomes integrated into nature after death, so death does not claim ultimate victory. The poem presents a vision of resurrection through natural forces rather than just religious doctrine.

1. Is This Death?!
by: Amal Soliman
Death has a new meaning. Man knows very well that he will face
death as it truth of life. We cannot prevent the death and the grave
human entry .what is the mystery of death, I think, the secret of death
lies in the secret of life. In 1933, in a notebook marked 'April', Dylan
Marlais Thomas, (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh
poet and writer who wrote exclusively in English, wrote the poem "And
death shall have no dominion "On 10 September 1936, two years after
the release of his first volume of poetry (18 Poems), Twenty-five Poems
was published. It revealed Thomas' personal beliefs pertaining to
religion and the forces of nature, and included "And death shall have no
dominion".
Thomas, however, choose to place the optimistic "And death shall
have no dominion" at the end of the volume. He gives us another point
of view about death .I asked is it real death or actual life? Death can’t
kill us completely. Thomas indebted to a particular phrase from the
Bible the idea of unity with natural is clear in his poem. Of course in the
back of our minds we're somewhat aware of our inevitable end. Maybe
we will change our minds. The message is that death won’t be getting
the final say. The poem opens with the speaker declaring that death shall
have no dominion. He goes on to give all the various circumstances that
could happen during one's life and also after death. No matter if a
person's "bones are picked clean," death shall have no dominion. He
goes on to emphasize that no matter the circumstances, everyone will
rise again. This pattern of living, dying, and then rising again persists
throughout the poem until the "sun breaks down."

2. The title of Dylan Thomas’s poem “And death shall have no
dominion” is strongly and obviously indebted to a particular phrase from
the Bible, in the King James It is clear in this context: We have an
allusion in line 1 that comes right from the New Testament—St. Paul's
Epistle to the Romans (6:9)
“7”: For he that is dead is freed from sin.
“8”: Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live
with him:
“9”: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more;
death hath no more dominion over him.
"And death shall have no dominion" comes straight from the New
Testament and that it's all about spiritually rising up after death the idea
of rising up all over the poem at the beginning and ending of each stanza
spiritual world can be never died .the power of death stop heir .the
sounds in the title give us kind of beauty between “death” and
“dominion” alliteration as romanticism.
The structure is three stanzas of nine lines each. The opening line is
repeated as the closing line in each stanza: "And death shall have no
dominion." None of the repetitions of the line have any variation from
the first. The theme is conveyed in this repeated line: "Death does not
hold power over humanity." This reflects the Modernist desire to reclaim
humankind's alienated soul, alienated from humankind's own humanity
and from nature that houses humans. If we omit the first and the last line
we will find seven lines this is the number of completion the days of the
week are seven. God created man in six days and on the seventh day he
lived. I think that the poet wanted to convey his message that life be
completed between death with no meaning except another life as well as
his verses confined between" And death shall have no dominion."
And death shall have no dominion.
The first stanza therefore argues that those who die "shall be one" with
nature as their bodies fade away but the essence that remains takes its

3. place in the natural world. Again and again, Thomas argues that what
endures is not people but the spiritual force that is within us.
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
In the third line. The sun rising in the east and setting in the west, that
"west moon" may represent the transition from life into death. Our lives
(symbolically speaking) "set" in the west, just like the sun, while the
moon rises in the dark, deathly world.
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
In line 8 seems to be that even after death, love is never lost. The
physical "lovers" might be dead, but their love carries on. The second
stanza focuses on the pain that we experience in life and through dying.
It does not matter how we die, or whether our faith does "snap in two"
because of the pressure and pain. All the painful of life has reached this
point where their ends. We will not experience a final death and it is
nature that holds our destiny. Lastly, the final stanza gives us a series of
images of how our spirit will enter the natural world. Our life force is so
much a part of nature that we may find our life force entering objects
such as a daisy or the sun, but it will definitely not end. The final line of
the poem repeats the refrain and the central argument of Thomas: "And
Death Shall Have No Dominion."
I see that Thomas talks not only from a religious perspective but also
as a celebration of the forces of life to win over death. At the end of the
poem, we are left to wonder whether, in spite of the Biblical imagery,
Thomas is not offering an alternative vision of resurrection to that of
official. The poem frames resurrection in nature, life force is immortal
that people’s bodies may die but their spirits live on in the world.
Finally death is not actual death .our life is forced to connected to birds
flowers and other objects of nature. Death means that our essence only
enters nature .Death does not claim ultimate victory over humanity. The
dead are never truly lost to us but live on through the beauty of their
memory and spirit. The struggle continues.

4. References
1. Dr,A.Gazar, Saeed. Contemporary English Literatue.
N.p., n.d. N. page. print
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