A. E. Housman in his poem “Loveliest of Trees” expresses the view that life is too short and should be enjoyed while one can. The lines which reflect this view are:
B. 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.
C. 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.
The boy realizes that he has completed twenty years of his life and now only fifty years are left for him. He promises himself to gain all the pleasures of life until his time of death. He plans that he will visit the ‘woodlands’ and feel the beauty of nature with his aging.
