Nature Imagery

Dylan Thomas is especially renowned for his celebration of natural beauty. Some of
his poems contain vivid and refreshing pictures of nature, even though he does not
have any philosophy of nature to offer. The influence of the Romantic poets is seen
in his recurrent vision of a pristine beauty in nature. Indeed, Thomas was a nature
poet in the sense that much of his truest inspiration arose from a natural scene
which he had observed long and lovingly. This is particularly seen in Poem in
October. In this poem Thomas illustrates nature wonderfully alive with ordinary
sights and sounds. In his thirtieth birthday when he comes out of the town, he
finds the whole nature is greeting him. Thomas sees himself on his way to heaven or
in the sight of heaven. The whole scene seems holy to him. He feels a complete
harmony with nature. The wood seems to him to be his neighbor, the herons to be
priests and the waves of the ocean rise high as if in honour and worship of their
creator. The birds are calling and the gardens are blooming. In short, the poem
encapsulates one of the most remarkable accounts of wonderful vivid nature pictures
with a general atmosphere of joy.