Every Morning I Wake | Dylan Thomas | Poem | Question Answers
Short Explanation:
This poem ‘Every Morning I Wake’ is extracted from Dylan Thomas’s drama ‘Under the Milk Wood’ .
In this prayer poem poet is praying god to provide blessing over the inhabitants of Milk Wood because humans are the poor creature born to die. And only the god can protect and make our survival possible. He presents the magnificence and divine power of god in the poem.
Question Answers:
1. Why do the inhabitants of Milk Wood bow to the setting sun 'but just for now'?
Answer:- The inhabitants of Milk Wood always bow; show grace and pray to the setting sun and say good – bye but just for now. This entirely suggests their desire to survive another day. Life is very fragile; it has no guarantee when we have to leave this world. But urge to live in this world is uncountable. Likewise, people of Milk Wood want to live, they want to see the world for next day. So, they cleverly wish and pray to God to make them see another setting sun.
2. What does Milk Wood sound like? A type of wood or a place? Why?
Answer:- Milk Wood sounds like a kind of forest but its not. It is the setting (place/location) of the drama ‘Under the Milk Wood’ penned by Dylan Thomas. As he prays to God to protect the people of Milk Wood; it directly hints that Milk Wood is a place.
In my opinion, this also sounds like Milky Way, the galaxy where humans live. I can say this because the God will not be of one place or sector but of whole universe.
3. Who are the poor creatures? Why does the speaker call them poor creatures?
Answer:- The poet calls human beings the poor creatures because humans are born to die. In the poem Every Morning I Wake the poet Dylan Thomas is showing the mercy and greatness of the God. And he wants to explain that humans are nothing in front of the god and humans always need the mercy of god to survive in the world. Therefore, he is calling humans the poor creatures because they can not escape death after getting born.
4. Explain:
We are not wholly bad or good
Who live our lives under Milk Wood,
And Thou, I know wilt be the first
To see our best side, not our worst.
–> These lines are extracted from the poem ‘Every Morning I Wake’ composed by Dylan Thomas. In this prayer poem poet prays god to protect the people of Milk Wood.
He says that God is the only one in the universe who can see the good sides of human and forgive bad sides. So he prays god not to see the bad sides because the people are not wholly good or bad. He requests forgiveness for worst deeds of humans.
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