Poet's mood:
Thomas describes his childhood and how he was amazed by the place where he was as a child. In the first stanzas we can enjoy the world as a child. Just to be aware of the place and its beaty. In the last stanzas the mood is about inevitable of being - death.
Poetic devices:
Repetition:
there are words which are used more than once: green, time, golden. The repetition emphasizes that there was youth , time was running slowly
- time let me hail and climb -
- time let me play and be -
- time let me green and dying -
Consonance
- And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves.
A verse about the place, as I was children I love to discover the ground, the wood, always there was something.
I like these lines:
- The night above the dingle starry
Even I was not there I see the place in my mind, beautiful nature lighted by the moon and stars.
Imagery:
- As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away
I remember days as I was child and after a day spend outside it was great to fall asleep and watching dreams.
- Golden in the heydays of his eyes
I feel a personification of good in that line
I like the calmness, loneliness, playfulness, curiousness in that poem even I did not like it at first glance. More and more I remember similar moments I was experiencing in my childhood.
I like the different version of reading. The rhythm depends on the speaker I like that version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z-ZuguSrQQ
I did not get that line, it is probably that English is not my nature language:
- Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand,
Anyway I should go back and read and listen to that poem again.
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