Summery of the poem '' poem in October "
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'Poem in October' by Dylan Thomas tells of a speaker's journey out of autumn and up a hill to reclaim childhood joy, the summer season and his spirituality.
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This poem summary focuses on the poem ‘Poem in October’ by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. This poem was written by the poet on the occasion of his thirtieth birthday. It is made up of seven stanzas. Each of the stanzas, in turn, is made up of ten lines each.
The first stanza begins with the poet saying that he woke up on his thirtieth birthday to sounds from the sea. Since it is his native village of Swansea that he describes, the wood beside the harbour is equated with a neighbour by Thomas. A quiet reverence is in the air as morning breaks in Swansea. That is why the shore appears to be “priested” by a heron, according to Thomas, and the water seems to be praying to the heron priest. The call of birds like the seagull and the rook has brought Thomas to the state of awakening from the state of being asleep. He knows that the rest of the inhabitants of the town are stills sleeping, yet he cannot resist getting up and walking out of his house the second he hears the sound of ships arriving on shore. The harbour is active, he knows, and feels he must be active too.
In the second stanza, Thomas says that it was with water that his thirtieth birthday began (as he has already evidently and amply described in the first stanza). Farms and horses are common in the little village where he had grown up, but it was the birds and the “winged trees flying (his) name” that attracted him. In Welsh, the name ‘Dylan’ means sea-tide. Thus “flying my name” may mean that the same air currents that cause the tide also make the branches of the trees sway and give the impression of the trees having wings. However, if we do not take this phrase quite so literally, we can presume that Thomas feels as if the delights of nature only exist for him at such an early hour, and he is the only witness to their magnificence. As Thomas walks further, he starts mounting a hill, and at precisely that time, a heavy shower starts up, so heavy that the poet believes it to be equal to the sum total of all rains that he has seen till that day. As he crosses the gate that separates the town from the hill, and leaves the premises of Swansea, he can feel the other residents of the village waking up.
In the third stanza, Thomas describes how the weather on the hillside is entirely different from the weather in the wood that he has left behind. The sun is shining brightly over the hill, and the only cloud that is visible is composed only of a large number of larks flying all together in the sky and forming a single undifferentiated mass. So many blackbirds are whistling that the whole environment seems to be overflowing with the sweet and melodious sound of their chirps. As opposed to the howling wind and the shivering cold in the wood below him, Thomas is pleasantly surprised by the “fond climates and the sweet singers” that he has suddenly come upon in the hillside