when he walked with his mother This is deep nostalgia He wishes to live again those pure happy moments The sea the heron and the hill become doors to his past Childhood becomes heaven on earth Return to the Mother s Love When the poet remembers his walk with his mother he feels her love again He says Forgotten mornings when he walked with his mother Through the parables of sunlight This is one of the most touching pictures in the poem The mother is both real and spiritual She represents warmth care and innocence The poet s memory of her becomes prayer-like His nostalgia is not just for childhood but for the lost bond of love The parables of sunlight show how simple memories become holy lessons in life Memory of Ann Jones In After the Funeral In Memory of Ann Jones Thomas remembers a woman of his village Ann Jones She was simple and kind He says Her flesh was meek as milk After her death the poet stands alone He remembers her love her faith and her humble hands He imagines her spirit singing through a brown chapel The poem shows the poet s sadness and love for the old Welsh life that is gone His memory of Ann Jones becomes a symbol of a lost time when life was full of faith and simplicity Nostalgia here is filled with love and sorrow Nostalgia for True Love In In My Craft or Sullen Art Thomas looks back on why he writes poems He does not write for ambition or bread He writes for the lovers who Lie abed With all their griefs in their arms This poem shows his memory of pure love honest quiet and full of feeling This is a nostalgic return to the time when art was made for love not fame He remembers the beauty of simple emotion and faith in love s power Memory of the Father In Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Thomas looks at his dying father The poem is full of pain and remembrance He calls him And you my father there on the sad height The poet remembers his father s strength and wisdom He begs him to fight against death This is love mixed with nostalgia He wishes to keep his father alive in memory and spirit The poem becomes a son s prayer full of old love and endless longing Nostalgia fills the heart of Dylan Thomas s poetry He remembers his childhood his mother his home and his father with deep emotion His poems are songs of lost joy and soft sorrow The hills birds sea and rain carry his memories For Thomas the past never dies It sings forever in his heart like a hymn to life and love