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Analysis and comments on Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas

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Comment 3 of 23, added on January 5th, 2005 at 5:51 AM.

This poem is almost a description of a dream. it has has many traces of surrealistic images. It recreates the world of a child and then contrast it with the phase of disillusionment in the adult age. Many of us would identify with the pictures that Thomas draws from the perspective of a child.

Manoj from India
Comment 2 of 23, added on November 30th, 2004 at 11:14 PM.

This poem is slightly autobiographical in that the setting is a dairy farm that Thomas’ aunt and uncle invited him to live on for a time as a child. The poem shows his interest in the process of life. The narrator reminisces about how he had seen the world as a child until line 28 when “a wanderer white” approaches. For the remainder of the poem, the narrator continues to reminisce about happy childhood, but there are darker thoughts and images mixed with memory, and Time (who is probably the wanderer) has led the narrator to feel more melancholy about his present.

Ed from United States
Comment 1 of 23, added on November 7th, 2004 at 6:07 PM.

I liked the idea behind fern hill. The happy, youthful and carefree tone Thomas uses is very well writen. He uses colors and certain to words to paint a picture of the reasers mind. I thought thomas did a good job at that.

christy from United States

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Information about Fern Hill

Poet: Dylan Thomas
Poem: Fern Hill
Volume: Deaths and Entrances
Year: 1946
Added: Feb 20 2003
Viewed: 22163 times
Poem of the Day: Nov 12 2004


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