Question

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. What is the best symbol for something that goes by too quickly?

A. The snow on the cherry
B. The twisted landscape
C. The speaker's age
D. The fading leaves

Answer 1

Of course her age is going by too quickly, but it is asking for a symbolic representation and i would say the snow on the cherries

Answer 2

I would say that the best symbol for something that goes by too quickly is the snow on the cherry. The correct answer is A.

Step-by-step explanation:

I chose the first option because I think is the most accurate image for something that goes by quickly. The snow in the cherry only lasts, at most, a couple of hours, very soon, if it stops snowing, the snow will melt or it is going to be replaced for another piece of snow. The amount of snow in the cherry would melt very quickly because the size of the cherry is also very little.