Great Regulars: Paul Muldoon: Well, I think that's based largely

on the fact, and it is a fact, that in this country one will hear Dylan Thomas recited at an extraordinarily large number of funerals. We realize at key moments in our lives, including our leaving this life, that poetry is significant to us. And it strikes me, it has been very telling that 'And Death Shall Have No Dominion,' a poem by Dylan Thomas, is a poem that is more often than not the poem of choice when a member of the family dies. That or 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.'

from Jeffrey Brown: PBS: Newshour: Conversation: Paul Muldoon on Dylan Thomas
also Jeffrey Brown: PBS: Newshour: Weekly Poem: 'Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night'

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