Honours First Year
Poem: Fern Hill
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes,
And honoured 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.
And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns
About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,
In the sun that is young once only,
Time let me play and be
Golden in the mercy of his means,
And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves
Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,
And the sabbath rang slowly
In the pebbles of the holy streams.
All the sun long it was running, it was lovely, the hay
Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air
And playing, lovely and watery
And fire green as grass.
And nightly under the simple stars
As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away,
All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables, the nightjars
Flying with the ricks, and the horses
Flashing into the dark.
And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white
With the dew, come back, the cock on his shoulder: it was all
Shining, it was Adam and maiden,
The sky gathered again
And the sun grew round that very day.
So it must have been after the birth of the simple light
In the first, spinning place, the spellbound horses walking warm
Out of the whinnying green stable
On to the fields of praise.
And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house
Under the new made clouds and happy as the heart was long,
In the sun born over and over,
I ran my heedless ways,
My wishes raced through the house high hay
And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows
In all his tuneful turning so few and such morning songs
Before the children green and golden
Follow him out of grace,
Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me
Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand,
In the moon that is always rising,
Nor that riding to sleep
I should hear him fly with the high fields
And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land.
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
★★★Theme:
The theme of a work is not its subject buts its central ideas which may be stated directly or in an implied from. In short, Theme is central idea in a piece of writing. The whole body explains the theme.
The theme of The poem is Glorious Childhood Memory.
Rhyme scheme: External Rhyme
Technically, "Fern Hill" is not written in a traditionally Form. But it is not exactly free verse, either. Each stanza has 9 lines. 1st, 2nd, 6tg, and 7th lined of each stanza and fourteen syllabus long while the 3rd, 5th and 9th lines are nine syllables Each 14lines has six syllables.
★★★Author's position'
Author's position is the situation or condition in which he or she exists. Their position includes their beliefs, disbeliefs,biasness, disinterest and assumption of them.
★Author's position: Objective/Subjective
★★★Mood and Tone: Joy and celebration Childhood.
★★★Figures of speech:(The ornaments of language. They are the words and phrases that convey more than their dictionary or literal meanings).
★Metaphor: "I was Prince of the apple towns", " As i rode to sleep", "The horsey/Flashing into the dark", " The lamb white days".
★Simile: " Happy as the grass was green", "Singing as the Farm was home", " The hay/Fields high as the house.
★Personification: "Time let me hail and climb".
★Epithet: " The windfall light ", " Happy yard".
★Allusion: "It was Adam and Maiden
★★★Imagery:(The collective use of images).
Apple bugs,house, grass, wagons, trees, leaves, farm, green grass, the starry, dingle,the daise, the rivers of the windfall light, the lowing calves, the barking foxes, the pebbles of the holy stream, sun, moon etc.
★★★Stanza:
The poem consists of six stanzas. Each stanza consists of nine unequal lines. In all six stanzas this pattern of syllabic count is strictly maintained.
★★★Summary:
" Fern Hill" is six stanzas of praising and then lamenting days the speaker spent at Fern Hill as a youth. And this speaker is stocked 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 lamentation. It's almost like singing "If you're happy and you know it, think again! What was a carefree bliss for the speaker turns out to be a fleeting joy that ever cannot recapture.
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(Bibliography)——Rezaul Karim Reading skills and ABC of English Literature.
©Rohomot Ali
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