Fern Hill

Dylan Thomas explores the life of a man coming to terms with mortality in his poem "Fern Hill", a picture book poem, whose tone and imagery is both melancholic and nostalgic in verse. It is with an artist's palette that the author describes a dying man's carefree days, with the use of colors to represent the seasons of his life. It was green and gold in the spring of the speaker's life, the colors for …

…easy in the mercy of his means / Time held me green and dying / Though I sang in my chains like the sea." Winter is yet to be realized, but there is a sense of finality in the poem that it will occur. Time has proven that the one thing constant in life is that there is death. It is in accepting that all things will die, did the speaker realize that one could fully live.