Fern Hill

A pivotal poem in the career of Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill starts as a straightforward evocation of his youthful visits to his aunts:

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:Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs

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:About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green.

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In the middle section the idyllic scene is expanded upon, reinforced by the lilting rhythm of the poem, the dreamlike, pastoral metaphors and allusion to scenes from Eden. By the end the poet's older voice has taken over, mourning his lost youth with echoes of the opening:

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:Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,

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:Time held me green and dying

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:Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

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Dylan Thomas: Dylan Marlais Thomas, (Swansea, October 27 1914 – November 9 1953 in New York City) was a Welsh poet and writer. He is widely considered to be among the greatest poets of the 20th century; his most famous poems include "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" and "And Death Shall Have No Domini...

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