as something divine The farm the sky and the sun appear to be touched by God s light Holy Peace in Nature The countryside is full of calm spiritual sounds The poet writes And the sabbath rang slowly In the pebbles of the holy streams Here sabbath means the holy day of rest Even the pebbles and streams seem to pray and sing The quiet farm becomes like a church of nature The poet as a child feels close to the sacred rhythm of life His joy in playing singing and watching the animals becomes a form of worship Time and the Idea of Salvation Later the poet realizes that time both blesses and binds human life He says Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea This shows that even within time s control the human soul can rise and sing The act of singing becomes spiritual The poet accepts time as both God s creation and God s test In Fern Hill Dylan Thomas turns his childhood memories into a spiritual vision The farm becomes a new Eden Nature becomes prayer Time becomes God s will The poem reminds us that life itself is holy and even in loss faith and beauty remain eternal