golden dream Everything was alive and friendly This creates a true pastoral world The Joy and Freedom of the Child-Poet The young Dylan Thomas lived freely in nature He says Time let me play and be golden Time was his friend He ran through the hayfields without fear or care He was green and carefree He was famous among the barns He was singing as if the farm were his home forever The sun shone upon his joy Even the rivers and streams joined in the song This shows peace faith and the holy beauty of rural life Time Memory and the End of the Idyll As the poet grows he realizes that such happiness cannot last forever Time once gentle becomes powerful He says Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea Childhood passes but its memory remains bright The Fern Hill Farm turns from a real place into a symbol of lost innocence and beauty The poet understands that time gives life but also takes it away In Fern Hill Dylan Thomas creates a pastoral idyll that celebrates childhood freedom and nature The poem turns the real Fern Hill Farm into a dreamlike paradise where the child nature and time dance together Though time ends the joy its memory shines forever in the poet s heart