"Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines" is a particular poem which fits the 'exuberant' label. ... " Broken ghosts with glow worms in their heads The things of light File through flesh, where no flesh decks the bones." ... "Light breaks where no sun shines", this light is so powerful it can penetrate further and more powerfully than the sun. Glow-worms are described as "The things of light" as if they are the bearer and bringer of light. ... "Light breaks where no sun shines" offers an obscure outlook into Dylan Thomas's gruesome world of the life cycle. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nine...

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