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The poem Fern Hill, by Dylan Thomas, is about person's life from childhood to his eventual death. My reaction to the poem at first was confusion. But with repeated reading, more clarity was reached. In the work of a critic, named Thomas Steele, the interpretation derived from the poem resembled mine in most of the points. The two major points of Fern Hill that we both agreed upon is what the poem is actually about, and the passage of time. These two subjects are major themes in Fern Hill.
The beginning stanzas of the poem are devoted to the childhood of the narrator. The narrator seems to describe a time of happiness and joy. He talks about a small village and how he loved to dream. When the narrator says, "I was prince of the apple towns," (line 6), it is just an example that shows how the narrator dreamed and used his imagination as a child. Steele confirms that the narrator's childhood was good by saying, "The boy's life is composed of repetition of the cycles of nature"......

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