Question

Which lines from the poem express the view that life is too short and should be enjoyed while you can?

Loveliest of Trees
by A. E. Housman

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 three score 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.

Answer 1

Now, of my three score 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.

Step-by-step explanation:

In section 2, the speaker broods that the person is 20 years old when saying that "Twenty won't come again" like in a nostalgic manner, perceiving the time that has passed and that the individual in question could never get back, and after that the speaker sets the age of 70 as the top age that they will most likely live altogether, which leave them with just 50 years left to live, anyway they think of them as insufficient years. Life is excessively short.

In the following section, the speaker again perceives that 50 years left is excessively little to completely have the option to appreciate life and nature. Regardless, the person has the goal to appreciate it.