LOVELIEST OF TREES
A.E.Housman
Loveliest
of trees, the cherry now
Is
hung with bloom along the bough
And
stand about the woodland ride
Wearing
white for Eastertide
Now,
of my threescore years and ten
Twenty
will not come again
And
take from seventy springs a score
It
only leaves me fifty more
And
since tok at things in bloom
Fifty
springs are little room
About
the woodlands i wiil go
To
see the cherry hung with snow
Analysis :
a. Style
of the poem is Ballad
Because
of this poem tells
the story of adventure and
is written in quatrains.
b. Rhyme
n the first stanza
: now a
bough
b
ride
c
Eastertide c
In the second stanza :
ten d
again e
a score f
more f
In the third stanza :
in bloom g
room g
go h
now a
c. Symbols
-
the cherry (in the poem
the cherry is loveliest of trees)
-
springs (the speaker
describes star of a llife is beautiful)
-
snow (represents winter
and the finaly of life)
-
threescore, twenty,
seventy, fifty ( describes about brevity
of the time he will have to enjoy that beauty)
d. Imagery
-
image
in the first stanza is Housman tell about of early
spring with blossoming cherry trees which represents the beauty of nature like
Eastertide party in England when early spring describe naivete and purity.
-
In
the second stanza is Housman use imagery allusion to
the age allotted to man in the Bible that of life the human until threescore
years and ten or seventy years like that spring here stands for a full year.
-
In
the third stanza is Housman describe blossoming
cherry trees to represent all of life and woodlands to represent the world. While, the last line “To see the cherry hung with snow”
describe winter and the finaly
of life.
e. Figurative
language
Personofication
: Loveliest of trees
Because
it usually “Lovely” using for human but in the poem lovely describe for nature.
f. Basic
point
In the adventure writer
after Easter tide party , he attention blossoming
cherry trees. He think that fifty years again his live never change. In this
time , his age is twenty years and he consider that his life will death when
seventy years. So , he don’t waste the rest of life. Such as, cherry trees in
the early spring and ending in the winter.
