Fern Hill

Poetry | Dylan Thomas

It was all Shining

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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 Fern Hill describe a magical morning at Fern Hill Farm The poet recalls how everything around him looked bright pure and new as if the world itself was being created again with light and love In these lines Dylan Thomas remembers the beauty of a fresh morning from his childhood days at Fern Hill Farm his Aunt Annie Jones s home in Wales When he woke up the farm shone with dew and sunlight He says It was all shining Everything the grass the sky and the trees looked bright and full of life The poet continues It was Adam and maiden Here Adam and maiden mean the first man and woman from the Bible Adam and Eve By using this image the

poet compares the morning at Fern Hill to the first day of creation The world feels completely new innocent and untouched by sin The next lines The sky gathered again And the sun grew round that very day show the rebirth of nature The sky opens beautifully and the sun becomes strong and golden It seems as if creation itself is happening again just for the child-poet to see In this moment Dylan Thomas feels one with nature and with God The light the sky and the earth all seem pure and full of wonder The scene shows the perfect harmony between childhood innocence and the beauty of the natural world In these lines Dylan Thomas uses the image of creation to describe the freshness of childhood The morning at Fern Hill is like the first morning of the world shining holy and filled with love

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