sailing boats at the shore A springful of larks is flying into the cloud The blackbirds are whistling from the bushes He also describes a hunting heron dive into the water These images make nature alive and active as if nature is celebrating with the poet These nature images also make the reader feel the freshness and life of the place Nature Images Bring Back Memories Thomas uses nature images to remember the joy of childhood As he walks the autumn rain begins to fall He writes In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days He imagines that the rainy autumn is showering down all his memories on him Then the poet climbs a hill Suddenly the weather changes He describes the bright sunlight of midday summer The sun of October suddenly becomes summery Thomas s vivid images take the readers on the hill with him and they also feel the bright sunlight From that height the faraway town looks tiny In the bright sunlight he sees apples pears and red currants The warm summer light brings back his childhood memories of walking with his mother He writes And I saw a child's Forgotten mornings when he walked with his mother Childhood Imagery Thomas describes his childhood memories through wonderful images In nature he feels the childhood joy again The woods river and sea bring back his childhood memories As he writes These were the woods the river and sea Where a boy whispered the truth of his joy These lines mean he felt deep joy in the woods river and sea as a boy He also describes speaking to the trees and the stones and the fish in the tide These images show that his childhood was full of joy and innocence in the beauty of nature Return to Present At the end Thomas returns from the summer of his childhood to the present day of autumn To show this he uses the image of autumn He describes the trees in the town below are turning autumnal red He calls these red leaves October blood Though the poet is thirty now the childhood joy is still in him He wishes to find the same joy in nature on his future birthdays As he writes O may my heart's truth Still be sung Color and Sound Images Moreover Poem is October is rich with images of color and sound The red leaves of the trees in Autumn are portrayed as October blood We also hear the call of seagull and rook and the knock of sailing boats Even the phrase water praying makes us imagine a soft continuous sound These images make the scene more real In fine Dylan Thomas uses wonderful images to make his birthday walk and childhood memories alive Nature seasons colours and sounds all work together to create vivid pictures Through these images the reader can see hear and feel the poet s journey from his autumn morning into the summers of his childhood