BY Dylan Thomas Biography Dylan Thomas was born in the Uplands area of Swansea Glamorgan Wales on 27 October 1914His childhood was spent largely in Swansea with regular summer trips to visit his maternal aunts Carmarthenshire farms These rural sojourns and the contrast with the town life ID: 390739
Download Presentation The PPT/PDF document "THE FERN HILL" is the property of its rightful owner. Permission is granted to download and print the materials on this web site for personal, non-commercial use only, and to display it on your personal computer provided you do not modify the materials and that you retain all copyright notices contained in the materials. By downloading content from our website, you accept the terms of this agreement.
Slide1
THE FERN HILL
BY: Dylan ThomasSlide2
Biography
Dylan Thomas was born in the Uplands area of Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, on 27 October 1914.His childhood was spent largely in Swansea, with regular summer trips to visit his maternal aunts' Carmarthenshire farms. These rural sojourns and the contrast with the town life of Swansea provided inspiration for much of his work, notably many short stories, radio essays, and the poem Fern Hill. Thomas was known to be a sickly child who suffered from bronchitis and asthma. Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself. His public readings, particularly in America, won him great acclaim; his sonorous voice with a subtle Welsh lilt became almost as famous as his works. His best-known works include the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood and the celebrated villanelle for his dying father, "Do not go gentle into that good night". Appreciative critics have also noted the craftsmanship and compression of poems such as "In my Craft or Sullen Art", and the rhapsodic lyricism in "And death shall have no dominion" and "Fern Hill". Slide3
summary
Fern Hill" is six stanza of praising and then lamenting days the speaker spent at Fern Hill as a youth. And this speaker is stoked about running through the countryside. Throughout the poem, he talks about how happy he was as a youngster and how oblivious he was that youth was passing. But at the end of the poem, the tone shifts dramatically from joy to sorrow an grief. What was a carefree bliss for the speaker turns out to be a fleeting joy that he ever can't recapture. Slide4
Thesis Statement
in his poem Dylan Thomas uses his life to compose the repetitions of the cycles of nature, so to him there seems to be no passage of time; from his adult vantage point, however, he reflected on his life throughout the story.Slide5
Theme
The poem theme is about the realization of life and maturity that appears after unexpected events. Mainly as the poet got older life got harder and was different from his childhood.
Slide6
language to create the tone and setting that portrays the theme
He
talks about The pastoral beauty of the countryside around the farm where he spent his childhood. He romances about the place where he came from, and one-part forlorn monologue of someone who can't let go of the past Dylan Thomas uses syllabic lines repetition, and rhyme to make his poem. Slide7
figurative language
“Now I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green”
And honored among wagons I was prince of the apple towns
And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves
Trail with daisies and barley
Down the rivers of the windfall light. Slide8
What does the poem mean
The
poem represents all the love and loss of his precious childhood. So the title is a place name, sure, but it's also a time in the speaker's life that was extremely precious to him which he can never
return.Slide9
Meaning behind the poem
Youth- You're only
young once, and all those other clichés
. For the speaker of "Fern Hill," youth is everything it should be—joyful, carefree, and oh so fleeting. And that's kind of the problem. It's easy for our speaker to feel the wonders of youth as everlasting, but all along he was doomed to be yanked irreversibly into adulthood, just like the rest of us.
time-Time in "Fern Hill" is almost like a character. Thomas personifies time throughout the poem, as something with immense power. At first, he's the guy who lets the speaker frolic, all happy-like among the meadows. But then time becomes the one who yanks our young and carefree speaker out of his graceful youth and into ugly adulthood