Write a note on the Welsh background in the poetry of Dylan Thomas with particular reference to poem In October.

Dylan Thomas differed from his professional counterparts by travelling to the past and settling in the Romanticism period, despite living in the 1930s. He averted the political affairs of his time, happily drawn to the Welsh countryside where nature’s beauty imprinted on his writing. This is evident when examining his poems, they are saturated with images of nature and Thomas would write fervently when inhabiting a rural haven.

Pale rain over the dwindling harbour
And over the sea wet church the size of a snail
With its horns through mist and the castle
Brown as owls
But all the gardens
Of spring and summer were blooming in the tall tales
Beyond the border and under the lark full cloud.

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And the true
Joy of the long dead child sang burning
In the sun.
It was my thirtieth
Year to heaven stood there then in the summer noon
Though the town below lay leaved with October blood.