Thank you. It's my favorite documentary about Dylan. I've watched it 3 times, so far. I too write poetry. It's always an adventure. Long live the adventure.
Excellent documentary!!! Finally an intelligent and creative way of shining a light on Thomas’s vivid and now classic poetry as well as fascinating life through the lens of a fellow poets sensitive eyes. Thank You! 😊🙏🏼❤
Quibble: just because Under Milk Wood was described as a play for voices doesn't mean it wasn't poetry. Shakespeare's plays were largely poetry too. In my opinion the first 5 minutes or so of Under Milk Wood are by far the best poetry Thomas wrote. Utterly magical.
Quibble: Shakespeare’s sonnets, aside from the soliloquies embedded in his plays, contain his best poetry. Dylan’s best work is, of course, the lyrical lines he left us: “The Force That Through The Green Fuse,” “And Death Shall Have No Dominion,” “In My Craft Or Sullen Art,” “Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines,” etc.
lived in the uplands in 1993 and passed his house every day on my way to the bus. i went back to Germany after 3 months and felt in love with his work, when i was back at home. it makes me proud, that i could walk on his footsteps: Swansea, the Mumbles and Rhossili.🙏🏴
A very good documentary about a great poet. I was fascinated by the idea that 'I sang in my chains like the sea' could also refer to the creativity occasioned by strict poetic form. I was also stirred by the idea that Do Not Go Gentle was addressed to himself. Looking at it now, it seems obvious. Simon Armitage: 'Poetry was his first language'. I think that's a very apt way of putting it and somehow gets to the heart of that mysterious linguistic netherworld which DT inhabited.
Masterful doc. Analytic, yet poetic in its own right, made all the more interesting by bards who appreciate Thomas's "craft or sullen art." They've tuned in, not just to the semantics of his arcane lines, but also their rolling sonority.
Of all the documentaries I've seen on Dylan Thomas, this is, easily, the greatest. So many tend to focus on the ups and downs of his tumultuous, tabloidian life, but this one attempts to discover the poet through his own verse, something no other Thomas documentarian has done (successfully, anyway). Absolutely top-notch work here. 👏
A thought. The young lady @ 07:26, we should all get her books of poetry; that certain kind of insight is not luck. Remember, DT is thicketed, there are cuts and poised threats, still this knowing opens like no other. Owen Sheers' presentation is more than insightful, revealing.
