Fern Hill
2004-02-29
Added by: Jason
firstly for the people who believe this poem is crap-u are extremely ignorant and shouldn't even be reading Fern hill in the first place if you can't enjopy it.
This piece of literature is extraordinary. How hard is it to write a poem that is so deep and meaningful using images and illusions? very challenging. If the band i'm in could even dream anything close to this as lyrics for a song, we would be famous.
Thomas is describing the loss of innocence and the gradual ageing process that every human being goes through. This loss of innocence however starts when we gain knowledge of sex. as was in the garden of eden when adam and eve tasted the forbidden fruit and were banished from paradise. by eating that apple they became aware of sexuality. example of this-they suddenly put on clothes. in fern hill "up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand." and guess what happens in the loft.
that's only 1 idea in this poem. the poem is about time and how we can have no control of it. we are young and innocent but nothing is everlasting. time will always impact on us and is controlling us in a sense of limits. The only way we can have some escape from this inevitability of death and time is the power of memory. We can restore or at least be aware of the innocence we once had.
So next time you remark on this poem in a negative way, at least try and think of what he is meaning, it doesn't really take that much thought.
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