Icons of the Nation

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Icons of the nation

-The case of Wales-

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DylanThomas

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Dylan Marlais Thomas(27 October 19149 November1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include

the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and

"And death shall have no dominion", the "play for

voices", Under Milk Wood, and stories and radio broadcastssuch asA Child's Christmas in Walesand Portrait of the

Artist as a Young Dog. He became popular in his lifetime

and remained so after his premature death in New York. In

his later life he acquired a reputation, which heencouraged, as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet".



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Childhood

Thomas was known to be a sickly child who

shied away from school and preferred reading

on his own and was considered too frail to

fight in World War II, instead serving the wareffort by writing scripts for the government.

He suffered from bronchitis and asthma.

Thomas's formal education began at Mrs.Hole's 'Dame School', a private school.



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Early studies

Thomas's first poem was published in the

school's magazine, of which he later became

an editor. He left school at 16 to become a

reporter for the local newspaper, the SouthWales Daily Post. He then joined an amateur

dramatic group in Mumbles, but still

continued to work as a freelance journalist fora few more years.



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Marriage

On 11 July 1937, Thomas married Caitlin

MacNamara, a dancer at Penzance registry

office in Cornwall. Although they had two

children, the marriage was tempestuous, with

rumours of affairs on both sides.



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Death

Dylan Thomas died in New York on November

9, 1953. The first rumors were of a brain

hemorrhage, followed by reports that he had

been mugged. Soon came the stories aboutalcohol, that he had drunk himself to death.

Later, there were speculations about drugs

and diabetes.



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His poetry style

Thomas's verbal style played against strictverse forms, such as the villanelle (Do Not GoGentle into That Good Night). Poetry

Thomas's poetry is famous for its musicality,most notable in poems such as Fern Hill , Inthe White Giant's Thigh , In Country Sleep andBallad of the Long-legged Bait . Do not go

gentle into that good night , possibly his mostpopular poem, is unrepresentative of his usualpoetic style



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Fern Hill

Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting

house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle

starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes,

And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns And

once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves Trail with daisiesand barley Down the rivers of the windfall light. And as I was green

and carefree, famous among the barns About the happy yard and

singing as the farm was home, In the sun that is young once only,

Time let me play and be Golden in the mercy of his means, And greenand golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves Sang to my

horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold, And the sabbath

rang slowly In the pebbles of the holy streams.



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And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house Under

the new made clouds and happy as the heart was long, In the sun born

over and over, I ran my heedless ways, My wishes raced through the

house high hay And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time

allows In all his tuneful turning so few and such morning songs Before

the children green and golden Follow him out of grace. Nothing I

cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me Up to the

swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand, In the moon that is

always rising, Nor that riding to sleep I should hear him fly with the

high fields And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land.

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me

green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.



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Fern Hill

The poem Fern Hill, by Dylan Thomas, is being

told by a speaker who is recalling his youthful

past. The poem is basically a lament for the

joy and idealism of lost youth. Thomas wasvery conscious of the impact of spoken or

intoned verse and explored the potentialities

of sound and rhythm; and he also used manyimages, symbols, and metaphors increase the

depth of the speaker's message to the reader.



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TomJones



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Sir Thomas John Woodward, (born 7 June 1940), known by

his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer. He becameone of the most popular vocalists to emerge from the mid-

1960s. Since then he has sung nearly every form of popular

musicpop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, soul

and gospeland sold over 100 million records. Jones has had thirty-six Top 40 hits in the United Kingdom

and nineteen in the United States; some of his notable

songs include "It's Not Unusual", "What's New Pussycat",

"Delilah", "Green, Green Grass of Home", "She's a Lady","Kiss" and "Sex Bomb".



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Jones had an internationally successful television

variety show titled This Is Tom Jonesfrom 1969 to1971. The ATV-produced show, which was worth a

reported $9m to Jones over three years, was

broadcast by ITV in the UK and by ABC in America.

As a result of the show, Jones was nominated in

1969 for a Golden Globe for "best actor". From

1980 to 1981 he had a second television variety

show, the eponymous Tom Jones, that wasproduced in Vancouver, Canada and lasted for 24

episodes.



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BonnieTyler



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Bonnie Tyler(born Gaynor Hopkins; 8 June 1951) is a Welsh singer,

songwriter, businesswoman and active philanthropist. Beginning as a local singer in Swansea, Tyler came to prominence

with the release of her 1977 album The World Starts Tonightand itssingles "Lost in France" and "More Than a Lover". Her 1978 single"It's a Heartache" was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic, reachingnumber one in several European countries and breaking theAmerican charts.After winning the 10th World Popular SongFestival with 1979 single Sitting On the Edge of the Ocean, Tylerconverted from country music to rock music. Her career peaked inthe 1980s with her Jim Steinman collaboration, releasinginternational hits "Total Eclipse of the Heart", "Holding Out for aHero", "If You Were a Woman and I Was a Man", "Here She Comes"and "Loving You's a Dirty Job but Somebody's Gotta Do It.



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While on stage, she announced that Rocks andHoneywould be released in February 2013, though aroundthe same time she was approached by the BBC to representthe United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest2013 in Malm, Sweden, which delayed the album's releaseby a month. The official announcement was made on 7March 2013, and that she would perform "Believe in Me" at

the Grand Final on 18 May. A total of 39 countriescompeted in the contest, with the United Kingdom finishing19th out of 26. During an interview weeks after the contestTyler spoke out against the incidents at the contest thatyear, and after being asked if she believes the contest is

rigged, she replied, "I think so." Despite extensivepromotional support, the single failed to significantlyimpact the UK charts, only reaching number 93



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RoaldDahl



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Roald Dahl (13 September 191623 November 1990) wasa British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and

screenwriter. Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he served in the Royal Air

Force during World War II, in which he became a flying ace andintelligence officer, rising to the rank of wing commander. Dahl roseto prominence in the 1940s, with works for both children andadults, and became one of the world's best-selling authors. He has

been referred to as "one of the greatest storytellers for children ofthe 20th century". In 2008 The Timesplaced Dahl 16th on its list of"The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". His short stories areknown for their unexpected endings, and his children's books fortheir unsentimental, often very dark, humour.

His works includeJames and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the

Chocolate Factory, Matilda, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox, TheTwits, George's Marvellous Medicineand The BFG.



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In honour of Roald Dahl, Gibraltar Post issued a set of four stamps in 2010featuring Quentin Blake's original illustrations for four of the children'sbooks written by Dahl during his long career; The BFG, The Twits, Charlie

and the Chocolate Factoryand Matilda. A set of six stamps was issued byRoyal Mail in 2012, featuring Quentin Blake's illustrations for Charlie andthe Chocolate Factory, The Twits, The Witches, Matilda, Fantastic Mr Fox,James and the Giant Peach.Dahl's influence has extended beyond literaryfigures, and he connected with film director Tim Burton with his "mixtureof light and darkness, and not speaking down to kids, and the kind ofpolitically incorrect humour that kids get". Actress ScarlettJohansson namedFantastic Mr. Foxas one of the five books that made adifference to her. Regarded as "one of the greatest storytellers for childrenof the 20th century",Dahl was listed as one of the greatest British writerssince 1945. He ranks amongst the world's best-selling fiction authors withsales estimated at over 100 million,and his books have been published inalmost 50 languages. In 2003, the UK survey entitled The Big Readcarried

out by the BBC in order to find the "nation's best loved novel" of all time,four of Dahl's books were named in the Top 100, with only worksby Charles Dickens and Terry Pratchett featuring more. In a 2006 list forthe Royal Society of Literature, author J. K. Rowling named Charlie and theChocolate Factoryamong her top ten books every child should read.[

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