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A 4 page essay that offers an explication of Thomas' "Before I Knocked." The writer argues that this poem paints a surrealistic picture of the experience of a child in the womb prior to birth, and offers a possible meaning. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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(18 poems, 1934, 2004). The poems were garnered from notebooks that Thomas had been writing in from age fifteen. These poems are described in a BBC commentary on the poet
as "Surreal and often challenging," and this is particularly true for one poem from the collection, "Before I Knocked" (18 poems, 1934, 2004). The poem paints a surrealistic picture of
the experience of a child in the womb prior to birth. In his monograph, "The Code of Night," David Holbrook argues that his mother had a miscarriage prior to
his birth was a source of psychic torment for Thomas, in that he suspected his mother felt subconsciously that he was a substitute for, "or reincarnation of," the child who
might have been (In memory, 2004). Holbrook goes on to argue that analysis of Thomas poetry illustrates that the poet internalized his parents attitude toward his birth and that this
had a devastating impact on his sense of personal identity. This thesis is certainly born out by examination of "Before I Knocked," which is perhaps the "crown witness in Holdbrooks
case" (In memory, 2004). Before examining the poem directly, it is informative to note that Thomas believed that everything, particularly in nature,
is connected (18 poems, 1934, 2004). This colored his religious orientation and is evident in the religious symbolism in "Before I Knocked." The BBC commentary points out that "Poems such
as Before I Knocked combine biblical images such as the dying Christ with symbolic literary characters such as Blakes Mnetha" (18 poems, 1934, 2004). `In "Before I Knocked,"
the narrative voice imagines himself to be a sperm cell at the point at or near the moment of conception (In memory, 2004). "Before I knocked and flesh let enter/With
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