Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
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The Poem
A. E. Housman’s “Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now” consists of three four-line, essentially iambic stanzas, or quatrains, in which the poet, through his observation of the beauty of the natural world, is reminded of the brevity of his own life and resolves, henceforth, to experience life with intensity. The poem begins with an image from nature, a cherry tree in bloom, which suggests the beauty of life at its prime, and then focuses throughout on the poet’s response to it. As the poet beholds the cherry, the “Loveliest of trees,” in its springtime finery,...
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