“O may my heart's truth
Still be sung
On this high hill in a year's turning.”
These are the last lines of the poem, Poem in October by Dylan Thomas and he ends the poem with a prayer that the poet may continue writing poems as he celebrates his thirtieth birthday.
“I sang in my chains like the sea.”
The concluding line of the poem, Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas, “I sang in my chains like the sea,” is highly imaginative, suggesting that the sea is chained to the moon and sun, and sings in its waves and tides.
“After the first death, there is no other.”
“After the first death, there is no other,” is the concluding line of the poem, A Refusal to mourn the death by fire of a Child in London by Dylan Thomas. These words give two meanings to the readers, thus making it a confusing finish. It either means that death only comes once (there is no other) or that death is followed by perpetual life (after first death).
