Attempt a critical analysis of This Bread I Break.

Attempt a critical analysis of This Bread I Break.

The speaker in the poem 'This Bread I Break' by Dylan Thomas is eating bread and drinking wine. When he thinks seriously he finds that the bread he is eating now was in the form of oat in the past and the wine in the form of grape in a foreign country. But man during the day and wind at night felled the oat and the grape. In the summer the juice of which the wine is made was filled with the grapes and these grapes had made the vines beautiful.

Similarly, oat in the bread was happily dancing in the wind. But man destroyed the nature and natural products by destroying the oat and the grapes. Now the speaker feels that, like oat and grape, he is also part of nature and therefore he assumes to be the food himself. And he addresses other diner and says that the flesh (bread) he is breaking and the blood (wine) he is drinking were oat and grape sometime in the past. It makes the speaker feel lonely and sad. And the speaker reminds the diner that he is drinking the former’s wine and eating the former’s bread.

The poem "This Bread I Break" is a poem with multiple meanings. On a simple level, the poem is about nature: it is nature’s voice reminding human beings that they are consuming and spoiling her. But, at a deeper level, it echoes the voice of Jesus Christ reminding his followers to remember his sacrifice and his path of salvation. We can also interpret the poem as the voice of the poet, the creative artist or the intellectual telling us that we are consuming, enjoying and destroying the product of their toil and struggle. In every way, the poem tells us that we depend on different sources for life: for food, for ideas, for spirituality, for living as aesthetic, intellectual and social beings. The poem is also striking in its style, its music and word game...................................................................................................................................

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