Section: Humanities
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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.
How many years old is the narrator of this poem?
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Explanation
The poet says
"Now of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again"
meaning he expects to live seventy years and has already lived twenty of them.
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