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The letters which were exchanged between Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins for 12 years show much about the two men. Especially, they reveal a lot about D. Thomas and to some extent about his poems. The letters sent from D. Thomas to V. Watkins can be said not to be not exactly a window through which we can look at Dylan and the systematic and logical ideas of his poems, but nearer a somewhat fragmentary and restricted water-color painting by which we can view his life and poems. In most of his letters to V. Watkins, D. Thomas asked repeatedly for material and financial help from Watkins making a plea for relief for his difficult and poor conditions rather than discussed his poems and literature systematically and logically. Whenever asked help from D. Thomas, Watkins gave him not a little help spiritually as well as materially; one time he protected and defended him like a brother, and at other times saved him like a messiah from adversity. Until the very day Watkins died, thoughts about D. Thomas never left his mind and heart. Just as Dylan was so important that he could even be said to be Watkins' altar ego, so Vernon was important to Dylan and affected his poems and his life. Vernon remains Dylan's fellow poet and supporters for ever.
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Dylan Thomas, Vernon Watkins, Gwen Watkins, alter ego, queer behaviors, dylan Thomas's letters
