After the Funeral

Poetry | Dylan Thomas

What is elegy? Discuss After the funeral as an Elegy

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What is elegy How is 'After the Funeral' an elegy An elegy is a sad poem written in memory of someone who has died It expresses both sorrow and respect Dylan Thomas s After the Funeral In Memory of Ann Jones is a powerful elegy It mourns the death of Ann Jones She is a simple woman from Wales Poem as a Song of Mourning The poem begins just after the death of Ann Jones The poet stands alone in her house He feels her presence in every corner He says After the feast of tear-stuffed time and thistles This line shows deep sadness after her death The room is full of sorrow Thomas feels pain but turns it into poetry The sound of mourning becomes a song of memory The poem gives the dead woman eternal life in words Praise for Ann Jones s Simple Life Thomas remembers Ann

as a kind humble soul He calls her Her flesh was meek as milk She was full of love faith and patience She lived a simple village life The poet praises her like a saint He imagines her spirit singing through a brown chapel This image makes her death holy The elegy changes sorrow into respect and peace Immortality through Poetry The poet says that his words will keep Ann alive forever He writes Storm me forever over her grave He turns his grief into creative power The brown chapel ferned woods and wet window become her sacred world Through poetry her memory will never die The elegy becomes a prayer for her soul and a promise of eternal love After the Funeral is a perfect elegy It mourns praises and immortalizes Ann Jones Dylan Thomas mixes sorrow with beauty He turns death into song His tears become poetry His love makes Ann live again in words and memory

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