Poetry Response One Haley Smith In the poem, "Loveliest of Trees" the poet, A.E. Housman, uses the changing of the seasons to represent the continual form know as life. The poem starts out in a very relaxing and enjoyable mood. The poet talks of the spring season and writes the the cherry tree is the loveliest of the trees, and that it is "hung with bloom along the bough." Spring can be the rotation of one's life which the good occurrences are prominent and perhaps a lot is achieved. since the tree is hung with the blooms overhead, it is visible for the others around it to see its progression. Cherry trees are one of the most beautifully seen trees around the nation to many and the fact the the poet chose to represent achievement and good things by the cherry blossoms only amplify how important those qualities are on one’s life. However following along with the story the season of winter seems to hit the joyous springtime. Housman chose the words,”About the woodlands I will go / to see the Cherry hung with snow” as the last lines of the poem to represent a now not so promising mood. All of the beauty that comes from the trees are being covered with a brisk, monotone season that keeps the corpse frigid. This can symbolize the worse characteristics of life because they sometimes overlap what we see as good. the can distract us from what life really has to offer. Underneath of the snow there is something that blossomed beautifully and was praised upon. Now, as life goes on, it is as said, being covered up.