Deaths and Entrances

Deaths and Entrances is a volume of poetry by Dylan Thomas, first published in 1946. Many of the poems in this collection dealt with the effects of World War II, which had ended only a year earlier.^[1] It became the best-known of his poetry collections.

Some of the poems contained in the volume have become classics, notably Fern Hill.^[2] The other poems in the collection are:

• The conversation of prayers
• A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
• Poem in October
• This side of the truth
• To Others than You
• Love in the Asylum
• Unluckily for a death
• The Hunchback in the Park
• Into her lying down head
• Paper and sticks
• Deaths and Entrances
• A Winter’s Tale
• On a Wedding Anniversary
• There was a saviour
• On the Marriage of a Virgin
• In my craft or sullen art
• Ceremony After a Fire Raid
• Once below a time
• When I woke
• Among those Killed in the Dawn Raid was a Man aged a Hundred
• Lie still, sleep becalmed
• Vision and Prayer
• Ballad of the Long-legged Bait
• Holy Spring

References

v t e Dylan Thomas Key topics Dylan Thomas The Kardomah Gang Cultural depictions People Caitlin Thomas Aeronwy Thomas Gwilym Marles Poems "And death shall have no dominion" "Do not go gentle into that good night" "Fern Hill" "In my Craft or Sullen Art" "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" Works A Child's Christmas in Wales Deaths and Entrances Under Milk Wood Locations Dylan Thomas Theatre The Boathouse Laugharne