1. Alfred Edward
Housman:
Lovelies of trees
When I was oneand-twenty
Group 2
Nguyễn Phương Vân
Kiều
Thái Phạm Ánh Ngọc
Lăng Hoàng Lê Phương
Nguyễn Ngọc Nha Trang
Lê Nguyễn Thanh Uyên
Nguyễn Lê Tường Vân
6. Introduction
• Period:
taken from The
Shropshire
Lad :
Victorian – Modern period.
strongly reminiscent of the
Romantic period: natural imagery
and optimism.
• Type:
Lyric poem
=> expressing an
7. Loveliest of trees,
the cherry now
Is hung with bloom
along the bough,
And stands about the
woodland ride
8. the cherry now
Is hung with bloom
Metaphor: bough,
along the
* early spring youth and
beginnings
* the cherry tree
beauty of nature and
spring
9. woodland ride
Wearing white for
* Woodland ride:
Eastertide.
a countryside path lined with
blossoming cherry trees
10. woodland ride
Wearing white for
Eastertide.
Personification: The
cherry tree is wearing
white
to join the celebration of holy
Easter festival White
peace and purity
12. Now, of my threescore
years and ten
• Score = twenty
threescore =
sixty
• Threescore years and
ten
13. again,
And take from seventy
springs a score
It only leavesnot come
me fifty
“twenty will
more
again,”
The first 20 years of his
life has gone and can
never be taken back
14. Synecdoche
Spring => a year
– The most beautiful
season
of all the four.
– The beginning season
of a year
15. Assonance
„ten‟ & „again‟ (line 5 & 6) / e /
„score‟ & „more‟ (line 7 & 8) /ɔː/
a sense of continuity and
fluidity to the verse.
more flexibility and adds
music to the poem.
Ten & Again: twenty years
16. And since to look at
things in bloom
Fifty springs are
little room
About the woodlands
19. Paraphrase
The beautiful cherry
tree stands out along the
woodland path when it is
blooming white in
springtime. i‟m twenty
years old and can expect
to live to be seventy. Since
20. Theme and meaning
• The poet expresses the view
that we should seize every
opportunity to experience life
in all its beauty.
• Houseman tried to underline
the brevity of life against the
vastness of earth and the
limitless beauty that abounds
in it.
22. Summary
When he was twenty one, he got an advice
from a wiser person - don’t bank too much on
love, but he promptly ignored it.
When he was twenty two,
the advice turned out to be helpful,
and he admitted: “’Tis true.”
27. What “crowns”, “pound”,
“guineas”,
“pearls” and “rubies”
The idea of money is an interesting way to explain
stand money-language.
the trials of love, usingfor?
A young man must guard against having his life
taken over by his material possessions and
other’s opinions,
but his mental and emotional life.
28. When I was one-andtwenty
I heard him say
again,
“The heart out of the
bosom
Was never given in
29. Why use “paid”?
→ The wise man is commenting on the nature of
love. No love is without its trials, and nothing is
harder to give away than one’s heart.
→ The young man didn't heed the wise man's
advice and fell in love
he had to pay for it
with continuous misery and deeply emotional
hurt.
30. And I am two-andtwenty,
And oh, ’tis
true, ’tis true…
31. The effect of the last
line
Feeling regretful
Emphasizing the author’s realization about
valuable lessons of love and life when he was
older, gained maturity and experience.
32. Them
The love among youth is far more valuable
e
than jewels and riches thus it should not be
given too easily.
Young people are stubborn and unwilling to
listen to others.
Advice is only really accepted and learned
through personal experience.
33. The rhythm of the po
Each of even-numbered lines contains six
syllables.
“I heard a wise man say (line 2)
But not your heart away (line 4)”
Each of the odd-numbered lines contains
seven syllables.
“When I was one-and-twenty (line 1)
Give crowns and pounds and guineas(line 3)”
Giving the poem a sense of melody
34. The rhythm of the po
All of the even numbered lines of this poem
contain three segment.
All of the odd-numbered lines contain one
extra unaccented syllable in the final segment.
Creating what is called feminine ending
