Section: Humanities

17) Loveliest of Trees

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing whit 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.

At what time of year does the poem take place?

1. winter
2. spring
3. summer
4. fall
5. It is impossible to tell

In the first stanza the author writes that the cherry trees are in bloom and that it is Easter time. Also in the third stanza the author mentions that he has only fifty springs left.