THE LOVLIEST OF TREES THE CHERRY NOW

KBL ACADEMY OF ENGLISH AND
SCIENCES

A.E HOUSMAN
1. He was born in England, on March 26, 1859 and died 26
March 1859 – 30 April 1936
2. He studied Greek and Roman classics
3. He was appointed professor of Latin at University
College, London
4. He was an English
1. Classical scholar and poet
5. He wrote two poetry volumes,
1. A Shropshire Lad and Last Poems
6. These poems have
1. Lyrical, musical and rhythmical
2. Odes, Elegies and sonnets
7. These poems have
1. Romantic Pessimism
2. Simple style, Pastoral beauty
3. Irresponsive love, Fleeting youth
4. Grief, death and patriotism.
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LOVLIEST OFTREESTHE CHERRY
KBL ACADEMY OF ENGLISH AND SCIENCES

1. LOVELIEST OF TREES, THE CHERRY
NOW
2. IS HUNG WITH BLOOM ALONG THE
BOUGH,
3. AND STANDS ABOUT THE
WOODLAND RIDE
4. WEARING WHITE FOR EASTERTIDE.
5. NOW, OF MY THREESCORE YEARS
AND TEN,
6. TWENTY WILL NOT COME AGAIN,
7. AND TAKE FROM SEVENTY SPRINGS
A SCORE,
8. IT ONLY LEAVES ME FIFTY MORE.
9. AND SINCE TO LOOK AT THINGS IN
BLOOM
10. FIFTY SPRINGS ARE LITTLE
ROOM,
11. ABOUT THE WOODLANDS I WILL GO
12. TO SEE THE CHERRY HUNG WITH
SNOW.
13. BLOOM:-blossom, flower,
14. BOUGH:-branches, shoots
15. SCORE:-twenty years
16. ROOM:-time, span

1. Symbolic poem
2. Appreciate the beauty of nature
3. Use the symbol of a cherry tree
4. Show the climax of beauty
5. Blossomed with flowers
6. Threatened by death and shortage of
human life
1. LOVELIEST OF TREES, THE CHERRY NOW
1. Describe and symbolize a cherry tree
2. The loveliest tree
3. Represent beautiful nature
4. “A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY
FOREVER” JOHN KEATS
2. IS HUNG WITH BLOOM ALONG THE BOUGH,
1. Loaded with white flowers
2. Spring season
3. Observe beauty of natural world
4. Life at prime/peak
5. YOUTH IS THE BEST TIME TO BE RICH,
AND THE BEST TIME TO BE
POOR…EURIPIDES
6. Take place in spring
7. Late in England
8. APRIL HAS PUT A SPIRIT OF YOUTH IN
EVERYTHING!- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
9. Symbol of odd rebirth
10.Beginning of new life
11.Represent the youth of Christ
12.YOUTH COMES BUT ONCE IN A
LIFETIME.
3. AND STANDS ABOUT THE WOODLAND RIDE
1. Present in the woodland
2. Personify it
3. Use stand for it
4. Mean two interpretations
5. Going to the forest on the horse back
6. May be near the passage to the forest
7. Want to enjoy the beauty of nature
8. “ONE TOUCH OF NATURE MAKES THE
WHOLE WORLD KIN” SHAKESPEARE
4. WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF WHITE
COLOUR IN THE POEM?
5. WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CHERRY
TREE IN THE POEM?
6. WHICH TYPE OF TREE IS DESCRIBED IN
THE POEM?
7. WHAT IS THE TIME OF YEAR DESCRIBED IN
THE POEM?

1. WEARING WHITE FOR EASTERTIDE.
1. Loaded with white flowers
2. Symbolic colour
3. Represent the beautiful nature
4. “NATURE IS THE ART OF GOD.” DANTE
ALGHIERI
5. Symbol of purity, cleanliness,
innocence
6. Personify the cherry tree
7. Look like the Christian dressed for the
Easter
8. Religious festival
9. Commemorate Resurrection of Jesus
Christ by the Romans in around 33 A.D
10.Celebrated on the first Sunday after full
moon after 21st March
11.Wear white dress
2. NOW, OF MY THREESCORE YEARS AND
TEN,
1. Consider
2. Live for seventy years
3. Average age according to The Bible
4. Give the theme of limited human life
5. Express necessity of death
6. EVERYBODY WANTS TO GO TO
HEAVEN, BUT NOBODY WANTS TO DIE
7. Threat for the blossom of youth
8. Uncertain and temporary
9. ALLAH ALMIGHTY SAYS IN THE HOLY
QURAN, “EVERY SOUL SHALL HAVE A
TASTE OF DEATH IN THE END TO US
SHALL YE BE BROUGHT BACK”
3. TWENTY WILL NOT COME AGAIN,
1. Lament at his passed age
2. Feel depraved at his ignorance
3. AS KEATS SAYS: “AND WHEN I FEEL,
FAIR CREATURE OF AN HOUR”
4. Enjoy the beauty of nature
5. Very beautiful and attractive
6. Little time to enjoy it
7. Contrast human life with God’s art
8. Shorter than art
9. “LIFE IS SHORT BUT ART IS LONG”
10.WHAT IS AN EASTER?
11.HOW OLD IS THE POET?
12.WHAT IS THE PROPOSED AGE
ACCORDING TO POET?

1. AND TAKE FROM SEVENTY SPRINGS A
SCORE,
1. Expect to live for
2. Use the figure of speech of synecdoche
3. Use springs for the years
4. Short time
2. IT ONLY LEAVES ME FIFTY MORE.
1. Urge himself to enjoy his life to its
fullest
2. Enjoy his life in fifty years
3. Not sure about his life
4. Too short to enjoy it to its fullest
5. Worried about seizing the day
6. Give the idea of temporariness of
human life
7. Give meaning to life
8. THE FEAR OF DEATH FOLLOWS FROM
THE FEAR OF LIFE. MARK TWAIN
3. AND SINCE TO LOOK AT THINGS IN BLOOM
1. Describe the beauty of the cherry tree
as well as youth
2. Use the metaphor of bloom
3. Climax of beauty and life
4. Reflect by the spring season
5. Show the beauty of youth
4. FIFTY SPRINGS ARE LITTLE ROOM,
1. Worried at the loss of life
2. Imminent
3. Give the idea of death
4. Inevitable in life
5. Great leveler
6. Subjected to total destruction
5. ABOUT THE WOODLANDS I WILL GO
1. Desire
2. Visit the forest
3. Enjoy the beauty of cherry tree
4. Want to enjoy the beautiful nature
5. AND INTO THE FOREST I GO, TO LOSE
MY MIND AND FIND MY SOUL
6. TO SEE THE CHERRY HUNG WITH SNOW.
1. Use metaphor of snow
2. Represent the white colour of flowers
3. Loaded by white flowers
4. IN THE WOODS IS PERPETUAL YOUTH.”
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
7. WHY DOES POET THINK FIFTY YEARS
LITTLE TIME TO ENJOY?
8. WRITE THE MAIN IDEA OF THE POEM?

1. WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF WHITE
COLOUR IN THE POEM?
2. The white colour is symbolic in the poem. It
represents the beautiful, fascinating and
peace loving aspect of nature. It also
represents the Christian dressed in white
for the Easter.
3. WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CHERRY
TREE IN THE POEM?
4. The cherry tree loaded with white flowers in
the spring season represents the whole
nature and its beauty. Its appeal is
everlasting but man’s life is subjected to
nothingness and annihilation.
5. WHAT IS AN EASTER?
6. The Easter is a Christian festival. The
Christian wear white dress on it. They
commemorate the Resurrection of Christ
(A.S) from dead. It is celebrated on the first
Sunday after the first full moon on or after
21st March.
7. HOW OLD IS THE POET?
8. The poet has passed twenty years of his
age. He laments that his life has passed
without enjoying the beauty of nature.
9. WHY DOES POET THINK FIFTY YEARS
LITTLE TIME TO ENJOY?
10. The poet thinks that man’s life is too short
to enjoy the charm of natural beauty. The
appeal in God’s art is everlasting for those
who behold it. But man’s life betrays and
ends soon.
11. WHICH TYPE OF TREE IS DESCRIBED IN
THE POEM?
12. The cherry tree has been mentioned in the
poem. It is loaded with white flowers in the
spring season. It presents a charming sight.
It represents the beauty of whole nature.
13. WHAT IS THE TIME OF YEAR DESCRIBED IN
THE POEM?
14. The spring time has been mentioned in the
poem. The flowers bloom in it. Everywhere
there is colourful scenery.
15. WRITE THE MAIN IDEA OF THE POEM?
16. The poem is the fascination for the beauty
of nature found in cherry tree. The cherry
tree loaded with white flowers symbolizes
the charming beauty of nature. Moreover,
the poem is lamentation on human life
which is too short to enjoy the beauty of
nature.
17. WHAT IS THE PROPOSED AGE ACCORDING
TO POET?
18. The proposed age of the poet is seventy
years. It has been derived fro the Christian
faith according to which man can live for
seventy years in this world.

LOVLIEST OFTREESTHE CHERRY NOW
1. It is a romantic poem and is highly musical.
2. It is a lyric poem focusing on appreciating the
beauty of nature year-round
3. The poem gives the idea of living for the
moment.
4. It tells that we should enjoy the present after
forgetting the worries of future
5. AS HORACE SAYS, “SEIZE THE DAY RATHER
THAN PLACING YOUR TRUST IN THE FUTURE."
6. The verses are in iambic tetrameter (eight
syllables in each line)
7. It presents the cherry tree with white flowers
8. It is spring season in which flowers blossom.
9. APRIL HAS PUT A SPIRIT OF YOUTH IN
EVERYTHING!- WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
10. The cherry tree is loaded with white flowers
11. The cherry tree presents a charming sight of
nature
12. THE EARTH HAS MUSIC FOR THOSE WHO
LISTEN TO IT
13. It is the symbol of all the beautiful nature which
is the reflection of God
14. THE HOLY QURAN SAYS, “THEN WHICH OF THE
FAVOURS OF YOUR LORD WILL YE DENY?”
15. The poet has great love for nature
16. Nature’s company is always pleasant and
soothing
17. “A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER” JOHN
KEATS
18. Nature is the art of God
19. It has universal appeal and attracts every living
20. WORDSWORTH SAYS, “COME FORTH INTO THE
LIGHT OF THINGS, LET NATURE BE YOUR
TEACHER”
21. The poet probably visits the woods on the horse
back
22. He is fascinated by the beauty of the cherry
tree
23. It is also the symbol of youth and beauty
24. Human youth is enriched like the cherry tree
with colourful display of white flowers
25. “ONE TOUCH OF NATURE MAKES THE WHOLE
WORLD KIN” SHAKESPEARE
26. The white colour is the symbol of peace and
purity
27. It also shows the beauty of life and surrounding
nature
28. But man’s life is short which is a threatening
phenomenon in human life.
29. The poet compares the white flowers of cherry
tree to the white dress of the Christians
30. The Christian wear white dress on the festival
of Easter.
31. The festival reminds the death of the youthful
Jesus, and his Resurrection from death
32. The poet finds the religious texture in the white
cherry tree.
33. “THE POETRY OF THE EARTH IS NEVER DEAD”KBL ACADEMY OF ENGLISH AND SCIENCES

LOVLIEST OFTREESTHE CHERRY NOW
1. The poet laments at his short age
2. Man can’t enjoy nature in short human life
3. “LIFE IS SHORT BUT ART IS LONG”
4. He expects to live seventy years
5. Man’s life is too short to enjoy charming nature
6. One of the main themes of the poem is the
brevity (shortness) of life.
7. Youth is even shorter like spring.
8. The poet is excited and wants to enjoy the
present at his best
9. He has high dreams and aspirations
10. Similarly, it is ironical that the beautiful
blossoming tree is covered by snow.
11. Snow is the symbol of cold and difficulties of life
12. The cherry tree is the youth of man’s life
13. The snow of troubles covers youth and its
pleasures.
14. AS KEATS SAYS: “AND WHEN I FEEL, FAIR
CREATURE OF AN HOUR”
15. Man should enjoy the challenges.
16. He should find meanings in this life
17. The poet reveals some ironies about nature and
human
18. He presents the surrounding nature in beautiful
colours like white cherry tree
19. But the pleasure of life is threatened by death
and snow
20. WORDSWORTH SAYS:
21. A POET COULD NOT BUT BE GAY,,,…….IN SUCH
A JOCUND COMPANY:
22. I GAZED--AND GAZED--BUT LITTLE
THOUGHT………..WHAT WEALTH THE SHOW TO
ME HAD BROUGHT:
23. Man’s life is like a bubble, temporary and
uncertain
24. ALLAH ALMIGHTY SAYS IN THE HOLY QURAN,
“EVERY SOUL SHALL HAVE A TASTE OF DEATH
IN THE END TO US SHALL YE BE BROUGHT
BACK”
25. One may interpret the cherry tree as a metaphor
for children.
26. In their innocence and purity, they are like the
white cherry blossoms, and are always
delightful to observe and be around.
27. In this interpretation, summer represents young
adulthood; autumn, middle age; and winter; old
age and death

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