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Historically speaking,time is lost poetically speaking,time is regained in the wager 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 doubting doubting Thomas and American poet E.E. Cummings have twain been noted for the recurring themes of rush of time in their poetry. In Thomas Fern pitchers mound and Cummings anyone lived in a charming how town, both modern poets utilize a apposition of paradoxes to express the irrevocable passage of time and the loss of innocence attributed to it. magic spell Thomas projects his mature feelings into a nostalgic site of his childhood, Cummings takes a more detached approach by telling a patently trivial, paradoxical story of noone and anyone, which by negation tells a universal life story. Fern Hill is a personal account, Thomas nostalgic revisit to a clothe where as a child he had spent time with his aunt. through with(predicate) this sentiment al revisit, he comes to realize the inevitable passage of time and a resulting loss of innocence. The poem was actually triggered by his visits to Fern Hill as an heavy(a) during a time of war. After Thomass hometown Swansea in Wales was bombed by the Nazi air campaign against Great Britain, Thomas parents moved taboo to their cottage near the farm of Fernhill. Thomas visits to his parents during the war triggered the memories of the happy Edenic times when he was young and thoughts of war were still distant (Miller 99). In this poem, he revisits both his own childhood, and ,symbolically, the childhood and prewar innocence of his country. Anyone lived in a pretty how town, is less personal. A love story made trivial through the use of noone and anyone, this poem plays ... ...icking of the social clock becomes almost deafening. Works Cited Cox, C.B. Dylan Thomass Fern Hill. The Critical Quarterly. 1 (1959) 134-38. Crewe, J.V. The Poetry of Dylan Thomas. Theoria. Pietermaritzburg, Vol.XXXVIII 1972 65-83. Davidow, Mary C. trip from Apple Orchard to Swallow Thronged Loft Fern Hill. side of meat Journal 58 (1969) 78-81. Kidder, Rushworth M. E.E. Cummings An Introduction to the Poetry. sassy York Columbia University Press, 1979. Miller, Tyrus. render for Poetry for Students. Gale (1998). Rotella, Guy. Nature, Time, and Transcendence in Cummings Later poems. Critical Essays on E.E. Cummings G.K. Hall & Co., 1984. 283-302. Turco, Lewis. Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town. Masterplots II. Wegner, Robert E. The Poetry and Prose of E.E. Cummings. New York Hartcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1965.