Dylan ThomasThis poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.
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Many poems are so abstract that the meaning is hard to decipher. However, this poem was written with a purpose. It represents the idea of pain and suffering. The speaker of the poem is speaking an idea that he hopes will be more memorable than one that people would say without thinking about it.
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