Deaths and Entrances is a volume of poetry

Poetry

Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

 by Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer, Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 11 January 2008. who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself...

, first published in 1946. Many of the poems in this collection dealt with the effects of World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, which had ended only a year earlier. It became the best-known of his poetry collections.

Some of the poems contained in the volume have become classics, notably Fern Hill

Fern Hill

Fern Hill is a poem by Dylan Thomas, first published in the October, 1945, Horizon magazine, with its first book publication as the last poem in Deaths and Entrances...

. The other poems in the collection are:

• The conversation of prayers
• A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
• Poem in October
• This side of the truth
• To Others than You
• Love in the Asylum
• Unluckily for a death
• The Hunchback in the Park
• Into her lying down head
• Paper and sticks
• Deaths and Entrances
• A Winter’s Tale
• On a Wedding Anniversary
• There was a saviour
• On the Marriage of a Virgin
• In my craft or sullen art
• Ceremony After a Fire Raid
• Once below a time
• When I woke
• Among those Killed in the Dawn Raid was a Man aged a Hundred
• Lie still, sleep becalmed
• Vision and Prayer
• Ballad of the Long-legged Bait
• Holy Spring