Dylan Thomas ’s vicarious voice in 18 Poems fo r the suffering of the poets of the thirties could be attributed to the influences of the skeptical poets Thomas Hardy and W.B. Yeats. To W.H. Auden ’s historic sense and amoral aesthetic tone Thomas’s voice of moral disinterestedness should appear as a pro fanation, a desecration of the mystery . In the study of Thomas ’s 18 Poems the critics, focusing more on obscurity and musical structure, have hardly analysed Auden ’s strictures on Thomas ’s self -orientated poetic voice. Hence, this paper, adopting a figurat ive study , strives to unfold the meaning of Thomas’s skeptical poetic voice and of Auden’s strictures