Poems of Love and Light, with just a touch of Grey by Frank L. DeSilva

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This was Thomas’s breakthrough poem, published in The Listener in March 1934 when Thomas was only nineteen years old. Dylan Thomas, ‘ Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines’. But is the sleep that poem calls for actually what Hamlet called ‘that sleep of death’?ħ. One of Edward Thomas’s most popular poems, ‘Lights Out’ is one of several ‘forest poems’ Thomas wrote, though the forest described is really a metaphor for sleep, the desire to ‘lose my way / And myself’. A joyous celebration of light and the delight it brings to one’s life, by the first Indian poet to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Poems of Love and Light, with just a touch of Grey by Frank L. DeSilva