“And Death Shall Have No Dominion” is one of Thomas’ best works addressing the “view that life and death are merely stages within the universal process” (Kor

The first of the four types of men are the “wise men”. These men might be considered intellectuals or scholars. Thomas says, “because their words had forked no lightning they / Do not go gentle into that good night [,]” which means that because they have not completed everything in life they wish to, that they will not submit to death without a fight (5-6).

“Fern Hill” is considered one of the most beautiful and reminiscent recollections of childhood in all of English literature. It was written in Wales in 1944, but did not appear until the publication of Deaths and Entrances in 1946. This poem is subtler in the theme of life and death than the other two. In “Fern Hill” Thomas explores life and death by recalling actual childhood experiences at his aunt’s farmhouse called Fern Hill. He opens the poem like a storyteller and “presents an idyllic picture of childhood on a farm, filled with vivid imagery which presents a child’s view of the world” (Tremlett 150). As the poem continues, Thomas uses exaggeration to emphasize that it is a child’s eyes through which the reader is looking as in such descriptions as “the hay / Fields high as a house” (19-20). Such lines as “I was prince of the apple towns”(6) demonstrates that the child sees everything as larger than life. Thomas’ childhood on the farm is directly related to this poem. Many of the images he conveys in the poem were his own memories of his younger years. However Thomas’s views of childhood in the first stanzas are “contrasted in the final stanzas with the regret of the adult as he recalls the loss of the innocence and splendor of childhood” (Korg 93). The turning point in the poem comes when the child realizes his youth will not last forever: “And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows / In all his tuneful turnings so few and such morning songs” (42-43). The child knows time allows such mornings but he also understands that he will not always be there to enjoy them. As the speaker changes from the child to the adult, he looks back on everything during his childhood and realizes that “time held [him] green and dying” (54). This line means that time is keeping the narrator until it is his time to die. He is only around until time allows him to leave this world. Time is the enemy of everyone and the “final transition from the remembered glories of childhood to the reality of the adult world is irre

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