Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) was one of great Welsh poets and writers with productive poems and works in the 20th century

who has a dramatic and enduring impact in the English language. He is well-known for his “play for voices” “Under Milk Wood”; the poems such as “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” and “And Death Shall Have No Dominion”; and short stories and radio broadcasts such as “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog” and “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”. Thomas’s romantic

affirmative

rhetorical style was both fresh and influential. Thomas became popular in his lifetime far and wide; and remained his international fame after his premature death in 1953. He knew little Welsh and wrote literary works in English

but almost his literary works mirror his relationship to Wales. He spent most of his life time in Wales and almost his works were finished in Wales; therefore

he was influenced by Wales including Welshness/Welsh culture and his own experiences in the outskirt of Swansea and rural villages in West Wales. Welsh contexts have been strongly embodied in his literary works

in which he wrote about Wales and the experience of being a Welsh.