Abstract
The Map of Love, published in 1939, generally continues the style and themes of the early poetry and it might wittily be said, as Beckett did of Proust, the poet still resists the distortions of intelligibility and reason! The book includes seven early stories which, as we shall see, are closely linked to the early poetry both in their themes, language and the worlds they create. Nevertheless there is the beginning of that deepening and extension of poetic sympathy and personal vision that characterises Thomas’s later work, as in the poem on the birth of the poet’s son Llewelyn ‘If my head hurt a hair’s foot’, and particularly ‘After the funeral’.KeywordsUnborn ChildPersonal VisionEarly StorySculpture StoneGood RoomThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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