Captain Cat - Swansea - Wales.
N 51° 36.986 W 003° 56.162
30U E 435193 N 5718793
Statue of Dylan's fictional 'Captain Cat' The Blind Sea Captain, from 'Under Milk Wood' a Stage Play and a Movie, written by the great Welsh Poet Dylan Thomas.
Waymark Code: WMDEKT
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/03/2012
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The statue of 'Captain Cat' stands in Swansea's Maritime Quarter, a bronze statue of the Blind Sea Captain made famous by Poet & Writer Dylan Thomas
Dylan Marlais Thomas, now a World Famous Welsh poet. Born in Swansea (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953).
" Captain Cat appears briefly in Thomas's poem 'Quite Early One Morning' and has an important role in Thomas's play for voices called 'Under Milk Wood' :-
Captain Cat, the retired blind sea captain, asleep in his bunk in the seashelled, ship-in-bottled, shipshape, best cabin of Schooner House dreams of...
never such seas as any that swamped the decks of his S.S. Kidwelly bellying over the bedclothes and jellyfish-slippery sucking him down salt deep into the Davy dark where the fish come biting out and nibble him down to his wishbone and the long drowned nuzzle up to him...."
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'Captain Cat' sculpted by Robert Thomas is a larger than life, bronze statue unveiled on 1st March 1990, (St Davids Day)
Dylan somtimes used to make up the names of Welsh Villages by writing everyday words backwards and putting LL, or LLa in front of them, for an example read the bell inscription.
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