The 19^th-century Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas is a prolific poet of his time. He is well known for delineating his emotional self.His poems ascertain the trajectory of life and living, hope and aspiration, time and place, nostalgia and memory and death and dying. The most significant aspect of his poetry appears to be the re-association and reorientation of his past. This particular paper concentrates on the select poems namely “A Poem in October” (1944) and “Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night” (1951) where there is a spontaneous growth of time past and time present. His childhood innocence and youthful vigour occupy a special place in his poetry. The element of time sets to unite his thoughts with his actions. His poems represent the correlation between the self and the individual. The paper attempts to reread memory as one of the dominant aspects of his poetry. The poet urges to show the binary between self and individual, society and habitat and family and culture. He associates himself with his regulatory nature in accepting memory as the earmark of his poems. His poetic persona resonates between memory and recollection. This paper sets out to explore the idea of memory as a contemplating agent that strives as the primary advocate of all human perception. The paper also concentrates on locating memory in its corporeal state.