This article accompanies the fable
The Age of Consent


Dylan Thomas and Adam and Eve

“I know the legend/Of Adam and Eve is never for a second/Silent in my service,” writes Dylan Thomas in “Ceremony After a Fire Raid,” one of his many brilliant emotional poems about the fire-bombings of World War II and one of his many acknowledgements of the metaphor of Adam and Eve so influential in his poetry. A useful site to read the poem:

http://www.undermilkwood.net/index2.html