Loss of Childhood Passage of Time and Emerging Adulthood

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) was one of the greatest twentieth century poets who composed poetry in English. His passionate emotions and his personal lyrical writing style made him resemble the Romantic poets than the poets of his era. Much of Thomas’s works were influenced by his early experiences and contacts with the natural world especially his famous poem Fern Hill. This book aims to compare and contrast Thomas’s Fern Hill with Wordsworth’s Ode: Intimations of Immortality to illustrate the poets’ similar Romantic features and their high regard for childhood as well as their different attitudes towards time adulthood and death. Although there are limited narrow and non-comprehensive surveys and studies in comparing or contrasting the poetry of Thomas and Wordsworth this book devotes an exclusive comprehensive study to these two literary figures to reveal their common and different poetic features and personal views to pave the way for further studies in the field.