Analysis Of Nostalgia In Fern Hill By Dylan Thomas

Introduction: As Dylan Thomas said: “There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.” And he was upright until the end. In this paper, we will discuss one of the classify poet the great 20th-century. A poet found his amusing art using just words, and led to publish incredible portrayed that caption the breath away. The discussion will include his life, and analysis his nostalgia in Fern Hill poem, where answering would be found to the different questions like what the poem about? Where his nostalgia draws? What the effect him suddenly? And what the conclusion he finds?. Moreover, the paper will compare the nostalgia in “Fern hill” by Dylan Thomas to the nostalgia in “Tintern Abbey” by William Wordsworth.

The first part of the poem speaks about the young child who, as narrator describes, carefree and eager to discover. In the other hand, the second part pictures the translation to manhood where he realistic and losing the enjoyable life. The poem sets place in his Aunt and uncle's’ farm. Thomas’s popular poem is about his nostalgia to the childhood and his time throughout the landscape of rural farm. Also, it is about the innocence, happiness, and careless youth, and the opposite of that. There are three main elements from Fern Hill: time, childhood innocence, and

Wordsworth wrote about nostalgia in place he loved, but unlike Dylan who wrote about nostalgia for the childhood. In “Lines Composed a Few Miles above the Tintern Abbey” (1798), which also know as Tintern Abbey”, Wordsworth reflects the feeling that he feels visiting the same place. In “Fern Hill” (1945), Thomas’s looks back to his childhood, and how he misses the naïve and carefree child. Wordsworth, who known as the Romantic poet, expresses his emotion clearly in the first visits the Wye River above Tintern Abbey in early ages, and when he revisits it again. Comparing the two sensations is the structure of the “Tintern Abbey.” Wordsworth remembers the feeling from the last visit where there was passion and enjoyment of the nature around “In hours of weariness, sensations sweet”, and how he changes since then “learned, to look on nature, not as in the hour”. On the other hand, Thomas recalls himself as child in Fern Hill, where he was happy, carefree, selfish, and no worrying about the