In his poem, “A Refusal to Mourn,” Dylan Thomas said, “After the first death, there is no other.”
He was writing about a child who burned to death in the bombing of London during World War II. In addition to the child’s death, Dylan might also have been referring to the death of his childhood belief in life’s innocence, and that everyone lived a happy existence into ripe, old age.
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