![]() Its title a pointed riposte to Hood’s poem, Larkin’s ‘I Remember, I Remember’ inverts the idea of recalling a happy childhood through rose-tinted spectacles. Philip Larkin, ‘ I Remember, I Remember’. ![]() ![]() Listen to Thomas read the whole poem here.ħ. Look at the ‘fire green as grass’, for instance. ‘Fern Hill’ contains some of the most arresting images in all of Thomas’s poetry (and he was a master of the arresting image!). It was written in 1945, just after the end of WWII. In this, one of Thomas’s best-loved poems, he revisits his childhood, using his visits to his aunt’s farm as the subject-matter. The language and imagery of ‘Discord in Childhood’ convey the violent words being exchanged indoors, but – as so often in Lawrence – he does this through focusing on the violence of the natural world outside the family home. ‘Discord in Childhood’ actually belongs to a longer piece which Lawrence never completed the eight lines quoted above are all that he preserved. In 1909, when he began work on the poem that became ‘Discord in Childhood’, Lawrence viewed his childhood as having been a combination of harmonies and discords, as the title of this poem implies. Lawrence’s poem offers a less rosy view of childhood, focusing on the wildness of nature which the child senses beyond his bedroom window, and the sound of his parents arguing within the house. The other voice in a silence of blood, ’neath the noise of the ash … Of a thick lash booming and bruising, until it drowned Whistling delirious rage, and the dreadful sound ![]() Within the house two voices arose in anger, a slender lash ![]()
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