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Fern Hill Commentary
Title: Fern Hill Commentary
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 725 | Pages: 3.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Fern Hill Commentary
Fern Hill Commentary
The poem “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas renders childhood as a period of paradise. The motifs of religion and nature emphasize this theme, and provide a direct allusion of the poem to the story of Adam and Eve and their lives in the Garden of Eden. This paradise is mirrored in the poem, where there was a beautiful farm, with rivers bordered by daisies and images of the apple trees in fresh …showed first 75 words of 725 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 725 total…a childhood in paradise. A setting of beauty and utopia reminiscent of that from the Garden of Eden is the place of forever fantasy to the imaginative narrator. Thomas’ use of elaborate descriptions and analogies parallel the reader’s emotions and mindset to that of the narrator and his thoughts and images of “Fern Hill”. Although eventual maturity brings paradise to a halt, the narrator’s desire to be young and carefree was never lost.
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