Fern Hill

1. Chantal Levy & Mercedes Cherry Fern Hill

2. “Dylan MarlaisThomas was born on October 27, 1914, in South Wales at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive in Swansea. His father was an English Literature professor at the local grammar school and would often recite Shakespeare to Thomas before he could read. He loved the sounds of nursery rhymes, foreshadowing his love for the rhythmic ballads of Hopkins, Yeats, and Poe. Although both of his parents spoke fluent Welsh, Thomas and his older sister never learned the language, and Thomas wrote exclusively in English.” Dylan Thomas

3. Background & Plot "Fern Hill" is a poem about the realization of life and mortality that appears after an unexpected experience occurs. The speaker is moved to a greater wisdom about himself and the world around him.” “So, this poem is the journey from childhood to manhood when the manhood comes, the man suffers from agony. Now I am not what I was in the past.”

4. Thesis In this poem, Dylan Thomas does not use repetition. “Thomas describes the farm as if he were a young boy again, feeling and experiencing again the same magical moments that filled his childhood.” Statement: Time Will not stand still for anyone!

5. Theme & Tone Life is to short, if you don’t stop and look up, it will pass you by. He used a lot of analogies and metaphors to describe the setting and tone. To compare him to those things and help you understand. He used words such as Time, Nothing I cared, and etc,; to describe the tone. These are also words describing the theme. “And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns” “Time held me green and dyingThough I sang in my chains like the sea” “Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time wouldtake me”

6. III. Figurative Language and Poetic Devices • He uses analogies and metaphors. He also uses images to describe time. • Example of analogies and metaphors: • “Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand” This is him realizing that he is actually old now. • “In the moon that is always rising,Nor that riding to sleep” • “In the sun born over and over,” : These are images such as the moon and the sun that he used to describe time that was being wasted.

7. Poem Interpretation • The poem basically means do not let time pass you by. • I think that the poem is saying that while we are young that we are careless abd by the time we get old we have nothing accomplished. • Example of my inferences: • “Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughsAbout the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,” • “And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barnsAbout the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,In the sun that is young once only,” • “Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand,In the moon that is always rising,Nor that riding to sleepI should hear him fly with the high fieldsAnd wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land.Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,Time held me green and dyingThough I sang in my chains like the sea. “

8. Conclusion • Time will not stand still for anyone! • The mood, tone, etc contribute to the meaning of the poem because it gives you the feeling of what the poem is about. Also the metaphors gives you images so u can actually see in your mind what he is describing.

9. Cited • http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fern-hill/ • http://www.google.com/ • http://www.poemhunter.com/dylan-thomas/