White
Okay, we've got snow and we've got some trees wearing the color white in celebration of the post-Easter season ("Eastertide"). Now, there are only two lines in the poem that contain some reference...
Spring
"Loveliest of Trees" is a poem about blooming cherry trees, and it is thus also a poem about springtime. The reference to "Eastertide" leaves no doubt that this is a poem about the season between w...
Numbers
The entire second stanza of "Loveliest of Trees" reads like a math textbook, with the speaker calculating how long he will live, how many years he has left, and trying to decide if that's enough ti...