Essay on Life Challenges and History of Dylan Thomas

â€Å"A worm tells summer better than a clock, the slug’s a living calendar of days: What shall it tell me if a timeless insect, Says the world wears away?† As a young poet Dylan suffered from many things two of which were financial problems and alcoholic abuse. Thomas poems were his way of expressing his feelings and thoughts. Despite Thomas struggles with life, he still managed to become a very successful poet. What transitioned within the young British poet’s life will be the discovery of his personal life, his marriage, his career and his death, and as well as an expounding of two of his poems. Dylan Thomas was born on October 27, 1914, in Swansea, Glamorgan Wales. (Applebee 1001). Thomas was the youngest child of David John Thomas and†¦show more content†¦Many years later Caitlin and Dylan also began experiencing financial problems. Although despite the passionate love letters Thomas would write her, their marriage was horrible. In 1940, Thomas and his wife moved to London, where he had served as an anti-aircraft gunner, but was rejected for active combat due to his illness. To avoid the air raids, the young couple left London in 1944. They eventually settled at Laugharne, in the Boat House where Thomas would write many of his later poems. In 1947 Thomas was awarded a Traveling Scholarship from the Society of Authors. When Thomas was the age thirty five, he visited America for the first time in 1950. While in America he began doing his reading tours of the United States. (Collected Poems, 1934–1952 ). As Dylan began his reading tours in America, he a lot to popularize his poetry reading’s as a new medium for the art, which were both famous and notorious. Thomas was well known as a Romantic poet to the popular American imagination. Dylan Thomas wrote many poems, but there two that grasped the public’s attention, which were Vision and Prayer and Love In the Asylum. 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