'The Hunchback in the park,' was a poem written by Dylan Thomas based on reality.

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    'The Hunchback in the park,' was a poem written by Dylan Thomas based on reality. When he was a boy, he used to go to the park, and would always see this lonely old man, whom he then wrote this poem about. The poet has looked at the theme of isolation in an intriguing way, solely looking at one specific person’s isolation from the community, looking at the way he lived, and was mocked by strangers. Also the half rhyme used throughout the poem creates a sense of melancholy. The opening stanzas involve no punctuation and the lines seem to run into each other. This pattern is continued throughout the rest of the poem.

  In the first couple of lines in the poem the poet described the hunchback as a

    'A solitary mister,'

We can already imagine that the man is isolated from the community and therefore spends many of his days with his own company, banished to the park. This suggests that the hunchback is always left in isolation and that no one is bothered to care about him. The solitary makes the isolation significant because he is always left by himself and he is stripped from humanity because of his deformity.  Thomas has focused on this mans isolation from the community he lies in, and the normality of work and housing. Sitting there 'eating out of a newspaper,' the reader can feel how the Hunchback has in a way become part of the park. In this part of the poem the poet wants to describe the man as not being an individual which he in reality he is but someone paying for the deformity he has. He is stripped from his identity and made part of scenery of the park. Something that is there everyday.

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    'Propped between trees and water,'

Gives the reader the impression of loneliness and the hunchback decollates to everyone, a feature who is mocked and spurred for being different. Thomas shows how the hunchback is a mockery to everyone, a sad man who everyone is scared to talk to, however not too scared to tease.

    The boys who go to the park everyday always taunt the hunchback, shout his name out and hide afterwards. However there is never any real intention in playing these pranks made by the kids. They pursue their natural instincts and the hunchback ...

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