Dylan Thomas

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is the ultimate theme within these chosen poems.
In “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower,” illustrates the connection between the earth, the body, and God. He discusses how both nature and man are propelled by the same holy force and therefore are united. He does not propose the question of how the stem grows to create a flower or how blood circulates within the body, but rather what is the ultimate force behind all motion and life on the earth.
“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Drives my green age/…The force that drives the water through the rocks / Drives my red blood;”
In these analogies, Thomas humbles the human race and depicts God’s presence in all natural things, including humans. Thomas reveals that we are not a separate entity, but only part of a greater existence.
Aside from the holy force that propels the world, Thomas also examines how we alter the way our lives should naturally ...

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hindrances) are redeemed to become one with a greater existence. Once again, Thomas connects God with nature. He reveals that because God is present in nature, when we die our souls are given to God and therefore also given to the beauty of nature. Thomas also explores the grace and glory of the afterlife, where “Though they go mad they shall be sane,/…Though lovers be lost love shall not;”
In spite of the use of abstract ideas such as love, religion, and death in the other poems relating to this theme, Thomas’s analogies of the gods with thunder, rainbows, rain, and night demonstrate how nature and the weather are affected by God’s presence. In ...

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