Thomas

RS Thomas Poetry Leading Notes olfactory modalitying at conclusion heaven in the ordinary 1. Introduction to what it going to lead Look at short history Back acres to the influences on Thomas work To analysis the two poems Look at the Implications of findings on the theme of finding heaven in the ordinary Look at the Implications for pastoral care 2. picayune History Read handout 3. Read Poem 1 To help with drawing out some of the imagery and description of these poems I subscribe completed my own explorations barely in any case held a meal with friends to explore the key questions I have put below. Poem 1 The Coming Tasting the speech communication Stanza 1 The initial words create a scent out of wonder & mystery Later words create fundamental imagery scorched land of fierce colour, the light burn down there, bright serpent, radiant with slime intense and violent imagery. animated being harmful not bringing life but life threatening. Crusted buildings sense of heat. Dryness, waterless. Contrast with river of slime aglow(predicate) sense of corrupted river pollution of being ruined. The words far off….through water… create a sense of remoteness (*). Stanza 2 Intense words again sense of inanimateness & struggle for survival bare hill, thin accouterments, vanished April. The words wait….



vanished…to return…let me go there… create a sense of movement, movement of God to the planet and the people (*). Evoking mad response Stanza 1 Sense of shock, emotive language analogous to apocalyptic polemical response. Stanza 2 Sense of the people being desperate, of needing salvation sense of people begging to be helped Vanished April barrage sense of re-growth and natural renewal as vanished that something terrible has happened nonstarter of rains? Crossed boughs language up to it seems quite desperate arms reaching, Both The words stated at (*) create an meretriciousness and desperateness. Of God moving from being absent to the present by Gods initiative.

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