"Historically speaking,?time is lost; poetically speaking,?time is regained in
the act of visionary creation" (Crewe 400). Poetry allows for the capture of a
moment in time otherwise lost in the blink of an eye. British poet Dylan Thomas
and American poet E.E. Cummings have both been noted for the recurring themes of
passage of time in their poetry. In Thomas? "Fern Hill" and Cummings? "anyone
lived in a pretty how town," both modern poets utilize a juxtaposition of
paradoxes to express the irrevocable passage of time and the loss of innocence
attributed to it. While Thomas projects his mature feelings into a nostalgic
site of his childhood, Cummings takes a more detached approach by telling a
seemingly trivial, paradoxical story of "noone" and "anyone," which through
negation tells a universal life story.

"Fern Hill" is a personal account, Thomas? nostalgic revisit to a place where as
a child he had spent time with his aunt. Through this sentimental......

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