The Poetry and Theology of RS Thomas - Rev Dr Carys Walsh

[@phraalanjames6184]

I resent, very strongly, that I am being 'lectured at' by Rev Dr Carys Walsh. Poetry, like music, is a very personal thing. R.S. Thomas has been my favourite poet for the last 45 years. Although I was brought up as a Londoner, I lived in Wales for 8 years and was married to a Welsh lady. I spent 2 years studying in Harlech in North Wales. My tutor there was himself a published Anglo-Welsh poet who knew R.S.Thomas. He introduced me to the work of the late poet. I also lived in Swansea for 6 years; 4 of them spent studying philosophy. I was very active in Welsh University life: Thus feel I have a sound basis for my own understanding of Wales. For the last 32 years I have been living in S.E.Asia; and am a Buddhist monk. But Dr Carys Walsh is telling me HOW and in what way I SHOULD understand my favourite poet. That is to remove the essence of great art: Dictating how and why I must see poetry on her terms destroys the very purpose and foundation of any great art!

[@metriodshine]

You don't have to listen. They can't take R.S. Thomas away from you. If you have his poems, you can have his words, you aren't obliged to take Carys Walsh's words.

[@QHarefield]

No she is not! She is telling numbskulls like me, who know nothing about R.S., how to begin to enjoy him. Clearly, this is not aimed at those who have long since left these foothills behind and climbed to the rarefied air above. Maybe you should be giving talks of your own rather than sitting with the infants on stools too small for you.

[@trevorbailey1486]

Dear, dear. I hope your apoplexy has resolved. If symptoms persist, do you think a little light verse from Kingsley Amis would help?

[@stevencroft4756]

I think you misunderstood the purpose of this entirely. It is clear all throughout that this is only one view.

[@fidianaa3533]

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[@rodmitchell8576]

Great poet, terrible theologian.

[@stevencroft4756]

How can it be terrible theology? The nature of theology is to examine different ways to view the ineffable.

[@HienBui-vg8mq]

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