Fern Hill

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Fern Hill is a celebrated lyrical poem by Dylan Thomas that nostalgically reflects on the innocence and transience of childhood.

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instanceOf lyric poem
poem
author Dylan Thomas NERFINISHED
collectionPublicationYear 1946
contrasts youth and age
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
exploresConcept inevitability of aging
passage of time
firstPublishedIn Horizon magazine NERFINISHED
genre pastoral poetry
hasImageryOf farm life
rural landscape
seasons
includedInCollection Deaths and Entrances NERFINISHED
inspiredBy Dylan Thomas's childhood experiences
language English
literaryMovement modernism
meter free verse with strong rhythmic patterns
narrativePerspective first person
notableLine "Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs"
"Though I sang in my chains like the sea"
"Time held me green and dying"
numberOfStanzas 6
originalPublicationYear 1945
partlyAutobiographical true
portrays idealized childhood
rhymeScheme irregular
setInRegion Carmarthenshire, Wales NERFINISHED
setting Welsh countryside
a farm called Fernhill
subjectOf academic analysis
literary criticism
theme childhood
innocence
loss of innocence
memory
mortality
nostalgia
time
transience of youth
tone elegiac
lyrical
nostalgic
usesLiteraryDevice alliteration
imagery
personification
repetition
symbolism

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Dylan Thomas notableWork Fern Hill