Soothing Sounds

Soothing Sounds
In his poem, “Fern Hill,” Dylan Thomas shows us how the enjoyment of life becomes a memory as time goes on. The theme of the story has taken two colors green and gold, green being when a person is young and gold being when a person is old. However, most people would just read half of the paper and say that the poem was about childhood and the people who read the poem thoroughly would argue that it was also about dying.
The author in this poem uses assorted colors to describe the way he felt. Being a child there is no reason but to feel, “happy as the grass is green” (2). By being young, a child has no worries and that is what the author is telling us. A young one that lived on a farm had no worries and when the family rode into town there had to be someone to look after the horses and pass time till the parents came back, so being “prince of the apple towns,” was one way to pass the time (6).
Green can mean a lot of things such as, young, no...