e in the Depression and WWII (Knepper 2887). On July 12, 1938, Thomas married the former Caitlin Macnamara in Penzance. The two met in an English Pub where she fell deeply in love with him at first sight. After they were married, they moved to Laugharne. It was there that they had their first son Llewelyn. This began the era when Thomas poems began to turn outward because of his love for his family. Being one of the least unclear of Thomas's poetry, his earlier work "Death Shall Have No Dominion" caught public imagination quite easily. The point in this poem that drew the attention of the every man was the determination of hope coming from the notion that everything is recurrent, though the individuals perish, "they shall rise again", and, though particular loves are lost, love itself continues (Korg 50). The tone of this poem is quite sermon-like, and its atmosphere is rather Christian; yet, the central theme in it is not religion, nor the religious beliefs concerning death but the relationship between man and nature. Thomas claims in the second stanza that deliverance from death is not through religious faith as "Faith in their hands shall snap in two, And the unicorn evils run them through;" but he declares man's unity with nature at death: "Dead men naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and the west moon." Between these lines the poem is full of vivid imagery, of which probably the most significant can be found in the above-mentioned line ("With the man in the wind and the west moon;"). Beside his sophisticated use of poetic devices, Thomas's poems are full of lively images, such as "When their bones are picked clear and clean bones gone, They shall have stars at elbow and foot;" which sometimes seem to be a completely meaningless confusion of images (51). The assertive optimism in the poem "Death Shall Have No Dominion" can also be brought into connection with the traditions of evangelical hymns, which is best reflec...
