Titlebook: R.S. Thomas; Conceding an Absence Elaine Shepherd Book 1996 Elaine Shepherd 1996 bibliography.counterpoint.drawing.god.knowledge.landscape.

Flounder

Conclusion,The aim of this study has been to determine that for Thomas the task of the religious poet — to remind ourselves of the place from which we started — is not to preach certainty but to explore doubt and other negative feelings and, finally, to wait in darkness; a darkness which may on occasion (as the author of . well knew) flame with love.

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Counterpoint,ed mode of irony insists by its very nature on the ‘simultaneous sounding’ of two possible readings of the text. (There is therefore a perceived reader in the Thomas text, the reader who understands the irony, who recognises the tropes which are being undermined, and who cooperates with the author in producing meaning.)

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Reading the Image,etween image and language, affects our reading of any Thomas text, but has a particular significance when we are making a religious reading. It will be useful, then, to take a little time to consider the complexities of the image.

Mosaic

The ,’s poems on prayer, we note how he complicates the relationship between the narrator and the reader, and how this becomes almost a critique of the act of prayer itself. Inscribed in the reading, of course, is the relationship between the narrator or implied persona and God.

MURKY

Introduction,as no great idol or object of worship; at the heart of the faith there was a great absence. Images of God are essentially problematical. According to all the great religions God is transcendent, ‘Other than’ the things he has created, unlike anything we can think or know. The position is stated uneq