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Chris Suarez The “Golden Days” “Fern Hill” is a poem that celebrates living and youth. When describing a farm in Wales, The speaker (Dylan Thomas) focuses mostly on the nature and its elements. The nature symbolizes his playfulness, careless, and naivety; its surrounding enables him to enjoy and play, which is the most important factor of his life when he is younger. ‘Fern Hill’ is the sheer joy that rings through every work. Thomas glories …

…used as a metaphor for innocents and purity. In the 5th stanza, Thomas is apparently adopting his virtues; he has bad conscious for being selfish and having fun as his priority “I ran my heedless way, and nothing I cared, I my sky blue traits, that time allows in all his tuneful turning so few and such morning songs” (40, 42, 43); at this point he feels time is non-compromising and he wishes he took advantage of it.