Read A. E. Houseman's "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,

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,

About the woodlands I will go

To see the cherry hung with snow.

Which element in the poem best symbolizes a life that goes by too fast?

A. Cherry blossoms

B. Woodlands

C. Snow

D. Eastertide

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25 January, 10:40

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Leilani Randolph · Answer 1

A. Cherry blossoms because it shows how fast things grow and how you never stop growing and time never stops