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Interpreting Poetry

Interpreting Poetry. Time as symbolic of life. As a general rule, poets often use the time of day or the time of year as representing time in one’s life. If the time of day/year in the poem is: Morning/Spring, then the time of life is childhood, young adult.

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Interpreting Poetry

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  1. Interpreting Poetry Time as symbolic of life

  2. As a general rule, poets often use the time of day or the time of year as representing time in one’s life. If the time of day/year in the poem is: Morning/Spring, then the time of life is childhood, young adult. Noon/ Summer, then it is adulthood, middle age. Evening, Autumn, then middle age to early old age. Night, Winter, then it is old age, death. (Sleep is symbolic of death.) Read the poem on the following slide.

  3. Loveliest of Trees ¹ 70 years. 1 score is 20 years.

  4. Paraphrase the first stanza and answer the questions. When does this poem take place? What words are clues to the time of year?

  5. Paraphrase the second stanza. ¹ 70 years. 1 score is 20 years. This is the Biblical lifespan of a man. Summarize the stanza. What is his point? Note that the word ten has a number 1 next to it. This means That the word or phrase is defined at the bottom of the excerpt.

  6. Paraphrase the third stanza and answer the questions. What is the speaker saying about life in this stanza? What is he thinking about in the last line? How do you know?

  7. Answers Spring Bloom, Eastertide I’m 20 years old and I only have 50 more years to live. You should enjoy things of beauty because life is short. He is thinking of his own mortality. He sees the blooms as snow.

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