In the poem "Fern Hill," Dylan Thomas remembers the merry holidays he spent at a farm which was the home of the poet’s aunt. He idealizes the excitement and innocence of childhood. He also succeeds in communicating the exhilaration, which he felt as a child.
Poem in October
In "Poem in October," Dylan Thomas celebrates his own birthday. Birth, life and death are simultaneously present in his imagination as reflected in the poem. The urge to transcend time and defeat death in art or poetry is intense and paramount. The poem creates a fantasy world where things exist and mingle in wild, lovely confusion, until the rainbow world of fantasy is drowned in the sea of reality. Here, the confusion of seasons suggests a timeless simultaneity in imagination.
The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower
In this poem, the adolescent poet identifies man with nature. The force is an ambiguous symbol, at once creative and destructive. The word ‘dumb’ is also ambiguous, meaning inarticulate and foolish. This poem states the irony of importance and power.
