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Thom Gunn was born in Kent, England to parents who were both journalists. Gunn’s early life was peripatetic; after his parents’ divorce, he traveled with his father to various assignments and attended a number of different schools. His mother committed suicide when Gunn was fifteen. I very much retired into myself. Thom Gunn was born in Kent, England to parents who were both journalists.

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The Movement was essentially English in character as poets from other parts of the United Kingdom were not involved.

Thom Gunn - Poet - The author of many collections of poetry, Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats is a collection of poetry memorializing his friends and loved ones who had fallen victim to AIDS. 30 March ·. A poem about that incongruous longing for something more and something less. It is from "The Man with Night Sweats. The Hug by Thom Gunn. It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined Half of the night with our old friend Who'd showed us in the end To a bed I reached in one drunk stride. Already I lay snug, And drowsy with the wine dozed on one side. Reserved but raw, modest but gaudy, Thom Gunn covered an enormous amount of ground in his exquisite work and his raucous life Revered poet, reluctant celebrity.

Thom Gunn first achieved notoriety in England, as part of what was called the Movement, an unofficial tag applied to some poets of the 1950’s who were, in Gunn’s words, eschewing Modernism, and turning back, though not very thoroughgoingly, to traditional resources in structure and method. Poets of the Movement included Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, and Donald Davie, among others. Gunn continued to achieve critical acclaim by approaching a diverse number of subjects previously excluded from poetry, with a similar regard for structure and meter

Thom Gunn's parents divorced and his mother committed suicide, but at Cambridge his poetry found admirers. He followed a boyfriend to San Francisco where he experimented with free verse and drugs, and documented the tragedy of Aids. Some critics rejected this new direction, but at 73 his status seems assured.

Thom Gunn’s poem consists of seven stanzas formed by rhyming couplets (a series of two lines that rhyme). This structured and consistent rhyme scheme represents an innocent way of speaking related to lullabies or Nursery rhyme. Hence, the form of the poem constructs a constant and soft childlike rhythm that imitates cradle songs. Baby Song builds two main spaces that contain contrasting images.

Thom Gunn (29 August 1929 – 25 April 2004, England). The subject, Gunn's recollection of his friends, could easily have lapsed into sentimentality, just as could have Sappho's. Instead, he puts them into an apallingly cold hard orbit in the classical cosmos.

Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, on the southern bank of the Thames estuary, in 1929. His childhood was spent mostly in that county, Kent, and in the affluent suburb of Hampstead in northwest London. A relatively happy boyhood was overshadowed first by his parents’ divorce when he was ten and then by his mother’s suicide when he was fifteen. One of the most deeply erotic poets of our time, his style has often been praised for chastity. A celebrator of the sense of movement, he is strongly attached to his home and his routine. The occasion of this interview, for instance, is his first visit to his native country in thirteen years.