Fern Hill
The poem "Fern Hill" by Dylan Thomas explores childhood memories and themelancholy reality of lost youth. "Fern Hill" compels the reader to come back over and over again to seek more insight into the joy and pleasure of a time of innocence lost. The figurative speech causes the reader to seek the elusive youth and boyhood days of the character and encourages the reader to mourn and celebrate with the writer for the once From the opening line, the memories of boyhood days are revealed. The writer recalls his carefree life. A beautiful playground, a wooded valley full of apple orchards and fresh green meadows, which bring the boy great happiness, "happy as the grass was green", can be visualized. Each line is full of boyhood memories. The boy, as many young innocent boys do, pretends many things in his playground, his cloistered world. It is his golden time, his "heyday" to be young and carefree, to pretend to be "prince of the apple towns". There is a sense of such joy in this time in his life; he sings, happily in
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Approximate Word count = 756
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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