Fern Hill

melancholy 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)