Fern Hill

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Poetry | Dylan Thomas

Fern Hill Farm

Fern Hill Farm. ✪✪✪ Fern Hill Farm was a real farmhouse in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It was owned by Dylan Thomas’s (1914 – 1953) Aunt Annie Jones. The poet spent many joyful days th...
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Write a short note on the pastoral idyll present in “Fern Hill”.

Write a short note on the pastoral idyll present in “Fern Hill”. ✪✪✪ A pastoral idyll means a beautiful and peaceful picture of country life, full of nature, simplicity, and joy. D...
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Discuss the religious tone of “Fern Hill”.

Explain the religious undertone of “Fern Hill”. Or, discuss the religious tone of “Fern Hill”. A religious undertone means a hidden sense of holiness, purity, and spiritual meaning...
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What role does time play in “Fern Hill”?

What role does time play in “Fern Hill”? ✪✪✪ In Dylan Thomas’s (1914 – 1953) “Fern Hill” (1945), Time is the most powerful and meaningful presence. It is not only a background idea...
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What does the colour “green” signify in “Fern Hill”?

What does the colour “green” signify in “Fern Hill”? In Dylan Thomas’s (1914 – 1953) “Fern Hill” (1945), the colour “green” appears again and again. It is one of the most important...
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Comment on the treatment of “light” in “Fern Hill”.

Comment on the treatment of “light” in “Fern Hill”. In Dylan Thomas’s (1914 – 1953) “Fern Hill” (1945), light is one of the most beautiful and meaningful images. It shines througho...
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Time let me hail and climb

Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes, And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns These lines are taken from Dylan Thomas’s (1914 – 1953) “Fer...
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And the sabbath rang slowly

And the sabbath rang slowly In the pebbles of the holy streams. These lines are taken from Dylan Thomas’s (1914 – 1953) “Fern Hill” (1945). In these lines, the poet beautifully des...
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Time held me green and dying

Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea. ✪✪✪ These famous closing lines from Dylan Thomas’s (1914 – 1953) “Fern Hill” (1945) express the poet’s deep un...
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It was all Shining

It was all Shining, it was Adam and maiden, The sky gathered again And the sun grew round that very day. These lines from Dylan Thomas’s (1914 – 1953) “Fern Hill” (1945) describe a...
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Discuss the theme of childhood in Dylan Thomas’s poem “Fern Hill”.

Discuss the theme of childhood in Dylan Thomas’s poem “Fern Hill”. ✪✪✪ Or, Discuss how Dylan Thomas recreates childhood in “Fern Hill”.  Dylan Thomas’s (1914 – 1953) “Fern Hill” (1...
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Discuss the elements of modernism in Dylan Thomas’s “Fern Hill”.

Discuss the elements of modernism in Dylan Thomas’s “Fern Hill”. Or, Find out the elements of modernism in Dylan Thomas’s “Fern Hill”. Modernism is a twentieth-century literary mov...
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