英语学习网站狄兰·托马斯1914年10月27日生于英国南威尔士，父亲是一位中学校长，他中学的时候曾担任学校刊物的主编，并发表了一些诗作。
Dylan Thomas was born in South Wales, Britain, on October 27, 1914, to a secondary school headmaster who was editor-in-chief of the school publication and published a number of poems when he was in high school.
狄兰·托马斯人称“疯狂的狄兰”，生于英国威尔士一个很有教养的中产阶级的家庭，而他本人天生就是一个顽童，而后又成为酒鬼、烟鬼。他很早就预感他活不长，自称要创造一个“紧迫的狄兰”，一个有着自我毁灭激情的诗人。他从本质上讲是一个浪漫主义者。他十九岁时出版了第一本诗集，立即引起了诗界的注意，接着他移居伦敦，两年后又以第二本诗集赢得了许多著名诗人的赞扬，1946年出版的《死亡与出场》更为不同凡响。这时他不仅轻而易举地走进了英国当代大诗人的行列，而且催生了摹仿他的“新启示”诗派（又称为“天启派”）。
Dylan Thomas, known as “Mad Dylan”, was born in Wales, England, to a very educated middle-class family, and he himself was born an urchin, and later became an alcoholic and smoker. He had an early premonition that he would not live long and claimed to create an “urgent Dylan”, a poet with a self-destructive passion. He was essentially a romantic. He published his first book of poems at the age of nineteen, which immediately attracted the attention of the poetry world, then moved to London, where he won the praise of many famous poets two years later with his second book of poems, and was even more remarkable with the publication of Death and Appearance in 1946. By this time he had not only easily entered the ranks of the great contemporary British poets, but also spawned the “New Revelation” school of poetry (also known as the “Apocalypse School”), which emulated him.
狄兰·托马斯的诗歌围绕生、欲、死三大主题；诗风精犷而热烈，音韵充满活力而不失严谨；其肆意设置的密集意象相互撞击，相互制约，表现自然的生长力和人性的律动。狄兰·托马斯的诗歌掀开了英美诗歌史上的新的篇章。
Dylan Thomas’s poetry revolves around the three major themes of life, desire and death; the poetic style is refined and passionate, and the rhythms are energetic but not rigorous; his dense imagery set up recklessly collides with each other and constrains each other, expressing the growing power of nature and the rhythm of human nature. Dylan Thomas’s poetry opens a new chapter in the history of English and American poetry.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
不要温和地走进那良夜，
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
老年应当在日暮时燃烧咆哮；
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
怒斥，怒斥光明的消逝。
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
虽然智慧的人临终时懂得黑暗有理，
Because their words had forked no lightning they因为他们的话没有迸发出闪电，他们
Do not go gentle into that good night.
也并不温和地走进那个良夜。
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
善良的人，当最后一浪过去，高呼他们脆弱的善行
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
可能曾会多么光辉地在绿色的海湾里舞蹈，
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
怒斥，怒斥光明的消逝。
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
狂暴的人抓住并歌唱过翱翔的太阳，
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
懂得，但为时太晚，他们使太阳在途中悲伤，
Do not go gentle into that good night.
也并不温和地走进那个良夜。
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
严肃的人，接近死亡，用炫目的视觉看出
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
失明的眼睛可以像流星一样闪耀欢欣，
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
怒斥，怒斥光明的消逝。
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
您啊，我的父亲．在那悲哀的高处．
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
现在用您的热泪诅咒我，祝福我吧，我求您
Do not go gentle into that good night.
不要温和地走进那个良夜。
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
怒斥，怒斥光明的消逝。
狄兰·托马斯|不要温和地走进那良夜|巫宁坤译
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