How does Dylan Thomas personify time in Fern Hill?

Thomas personifies time as a deity or Lord. which serves to make time seem as if it is actually a character. In using personification, Thomas makes it seem as if time has power over the speaker. The speaker is weak, giving into time, which controls his movements, and eventually becomes the death of him.

Time let me hail and climb

Time let me play and be

Time held me green and dying