Both writers offer insight into the Welsh heritage. If there is a constant to the Welsh experience and culture, it is a love of poetry and its image-making power. Poet Dylan Thomas was so expressive in his description of what it feels like to be an adolescent, according to Professor Davies, that his highly original poetry was first published when he was only 20 years of age. A single poem sent to a London magazine started his career as a poet . Dylan Thomas early poetry describes the human condition from an adolescent s point of view.
Poetry is an image-making power in which words are set unchangeably in order.
Dr. Davies remembered a Welsh-language poem written by a tramp befriended by Dr. Davies grandfather in Wales. It evokes the phenomenon that we call a horizon. Look at this mysteriously vanishing thing all around us . . The poet s name was Dewi Emrys. He survives as a poet, not a tramp.