Thursday, March 26, 2015

Loveliest of Trees


-- What do you notice? 

Some things we noticed:
what the poem looks like on the page
the story he is telling
figurative language -- metaphor
descriptive language
emotions/mood













A. E. Housman (1859–1936).  A Shropshire Lad.  1896.
II. Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
LOVELIEST of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now, of my threescore years and ten,        5
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,        10
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.



couplets
iambic tetrameter


What is the mood?
What is the central idea or theme? 


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