Loveliest of Trees Themes

Time is everywhere in this poem—from the first stanza's references to blooming cherry trees and Eastertide, to the second stanza's discussion of youth and old age, to the speaker's comments in th...

Okay so even though this is a poem about blooming cherry trees, youth, springtime, and all that, it's just as much a poem about—dunDUNDUN—death. It's impossible to think about spring without al...

It's hard not to think of the speaker of "Loveliest of Trees" as one of those guys on the Discovery Channel, showing you all the cool things the natural world has to offer. The first stanza is pret...